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In this study, we diagnose the rank-deficient problems of the original NEQ, review the efficiency of the controlled datum removal (CDR) method in filtering out the three frame-origin-related datum contents, investigate the reliabilities of the inherited frame orientation and scale information from the fixation of the GPS satellite orbits and the Earth rotation parameters in establishing the NEQ of the CMONOC network on Bernese, and analyze the impact of the network effect on the position time series of GPS stations. Our results confirm the nonsingularity of the original NEQ and the efficiency of the CDR filtering in resolving the rank-deficient problems; show that the frame origin parameters are weakly defined and should be stripped off, while the frame orientation and scale parameters should be retained due to their insufficient redefinition from the minimal constraint (MC) implementation through inhomogeneous and asymmetrical fiducial networks; and reveal the superiority of a globally distributed fiducial network for frame alignment of the reconstructed NEQs via No-Net-Translation (NNT) MC conditions. Finally, we attribute the two apparent discontinuities in the position time series to the terrestrial reference frame (TRF) conversions of the GPS satellite orbits, and identify it as the orbit TRF effect.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10030357","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,2,27]],"date-time":"2018-02-27T03:36:12Z","timestamp":1519702572000},"page":"357","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["A Study of Rank Defect and Network Effect in Processing the CMONOC Network on Bernese"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5641-8041","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Weiwei","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China"}]},{"given":"Jicang","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China"}]},{"given":"Guojie","family":"Meng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing 100036, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,2,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"574","DOI":"10.1126\/science.1063647","article-title":"Present-day crustal deformation in China constrained by global positioning system measurements","volume":"294","author":"Wang","year":"2001","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"943","DOI":"10.1016\/j.asr.2011.11.032","article-title":"Noise analysis of continuous GPS coordinate time series for CMONOC","volume":"49","author":"Wang","year":"2012","journal-title":"Adv. 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