The study of local deformations is a hot topic in geodesy. Local rotations of
the crust around the vertical axis can be caused by deformations. In the Gran
Sasso area the ring laser prototype GINGERINO and the GNSS array are operative.
One year of data of GINGERINO is compared with the ones from the GNSS stations,
homogeneously selected around the position of GINGERINO, aiming at looking for
rotational signals with period of days common to both systems. At that purpose
the rotational component of the area circumscribed by the GNSS stations has
been evaluated and compared with the GINGERINO data. The coherences between the
signals show structures that even exceed 60% coherence over the 6-60 days
period; to validate this unprecedented analysis two different methods have been
used to evaluate the local rotation using the GNSS stations. The analysis
reveals that the shared rotational signal's amplitude in both instruments is
approximately 10−13rad/s, an order of magnitude lower than the amplitudes
of the signals examined using the coherence method. The ring laser array GINGER
is at present under construction, and the confrontation of the ring laser data
with GNSS antennas provides evidence of the fruibility and validity of the ring
laser data for very low frequency investigation