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The three most recent International Terrestrial Reference System (ITRS) realizations, ITRF2014, DTRF2014, and JTRF2014, were determined with different strategies, which has resulted in different signals in the reference frame parameters. In this paper, we used the continuous site position time series of International GNSS Service (IGS) from 1995 to 2020 as a benchmark to investigate the characteristics of the three frames. In the comparison, the ITRS realizations were divided into the determination and prediction sections, where the site coordinates of the TRFs were extrapolated in the prediction period. The results indicated that the orientation and scale parameters of the ITRF2014, and the IGS solutions showed excellent agreement during the determination period of ITRF2014, while, during the prediction period, the orientation parameter diverged from IGS with rates of 11.9, 5.5, and 8.4 \u03bcas\/yr, and the scale degraded with a rate of \u22120.038 ppb\/yr. The consistency of the origin parameters between the DTRF2014 and the IGS solutions during the two periods changed from 0.07, 0.11, and \u22120.15 mm\/yr to \u22120.17, \u22120.18, and \u22120.12 mm\/yr; the consistency of orientation parameters from \u22123.6, \u22121.9, and 2.9 \u03bcas\/yr to 15.9, \u22122.3, and 13.2 \u03bcas\/yr; and the consistency of scale from 0.007 to \u22120.005 ppb\/yr. In the comparison between the JTRF2014 and IGS solutions, annual signals in the origin differences were 1.5, 3.0, and 2.4 mm in the X, Y, and Z components, respectively, and the temporal variation trends in different periods disagreed with their long-term trends. Obvious trend switches in the rotation parameters were also observable, and the complex temporal variation characteristics of the scale offsets may be related to the scale definition strategy applied in different TRFs.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13122304","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,14]],"date-time":"2021-06-14T22:25:46Z","timestamp":1623709546000},"page":"2304","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Comparison and Assessment of Three ITRS Realizations"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Jiao","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2899-7677","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Junping","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Peizhao","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Weijie","family":"Tan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Danan","family":"Dong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Weijing","family":"Qu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1973","DOI":"10.1029\/95GL02006","article-title":"Plate motion and crustal deformation estimated with geodetic data from the Global Positioning System","volume":"22","author":"Argus","year":"1995","journal-title":"Geophys. 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