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Acknowledgements. This project review could have had more than six co-authors easily.
However that was impractical to coordinate in the available time. I have to take responsibility
for the statements made and and the balancing of the items presented. Appropriate
reference is given to earlier publications covering the various aspects of the ring laser
project in more detail. The combined ring laser results were possible because of a collaboration
of Forschungseinrichtung Satellitengeodäsie, Technische Universität München, Germany,
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Bundesamt für Kartographie
und Geodäsie, Frankfurt, Germany and the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, München, Germany.
The GEOsensor was funded under the program GEOTECHNOLOGIEN of BMBF
and DFG, Grant 03F0325 A-D. University of Canterbury research grants, contracts of the
Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand and also grants from the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) are gratefully acknowledged. Special thanks go to my colleagues
Heiner Igel, Geoffrey Stedman, Robert Hurst, Jon-Paul Wells, Clive Rowe, Robert
Thirkettle, Thomas Klügel, Alexander Velikoseltsev, Manfred Schneider, Benedikt Pritsch,
Wolfgang Schlüter and Robert Dunn for their contributions.
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