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Firstly, tidal corrections are applied to the LOD data. A first-order difference method is proposed to identify outliers in GNSS LODR (tidal corrected LOD) data, and the EAM data are converted into LODR data using the Liouville equation. Then, the residual term and the fitted term are obtained by least squares fitting. Finally, the fitted residual terms of GNSS LODR and EAM LODR are combined by using the Kalman combination method. In this study, EAM data from the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) (2019\u20132022), as well as LOD data from Wuhan University (WHU) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), are used for the Kalman combination algorithm experiment. In the Kalman combination, we consider weighted combination based on formal error. However, none of the computing centers provide an uncertainty estimation for the EAM dataset. Therefore, we simulate the combination experiment of LOD and EAM with formal error ranging from 0 to 100 us. The experiment shows that using reasonable formal error for the EAM dataset can improve the accuracy of LOD. 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