Dounreay Active Station
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The photograph on this page of Dounreay Active Station by Richard Webb as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 24 Jul 2010
The white dome contains a differential GPS transmitter used to calibrate high accuracy commercial GPS units. These are the units currently being used to check hill heights for corrections to Munro's Tables etc.
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