Virtual reference station

BIM for Heritage, Developing a Historic Building Information Model, published by Historic England in July 2017, defines a Virtual Reference Station (VRS) as: ‘an imaginary unoccupied reference station for which observation data is created from the surrounding reference stations as though observed by a GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) receiver’

Earth observation and aerial surveys, RICS professional standard, 6th edition, September 2021, published on 4 January 2022 by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), defines a virtual reference station (VRS) as: ‘A specialised processing technique that generates a virtual base station for a GNSS survey from a network of other fixed real base stations.’

[edit] Related articles on Designing Buildings

• Building information modelling.
• Datum.
• Heritage asset.
• Lidar.
• GNSS.
• Historic England.
• Origin point.
• Point cloud.
• Scan to BIM.
• Survey.
• Total station.

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