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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;">As part of the EGU General Assembly that will be held in Vienna, Austria during 17-22 April 2016 there will be a session on "</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">The
Global Geodetic Observing System: Monitoring Geohazards</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;">". The description of the session is given below.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;">On behalf of the conveners I would like to draw your attention to this session and encourage you to participate in it.
</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;">More information about the EGU General Assembly 2016 can be obtained from its web site at <</span><a href="http://www.egu2014.eu/" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;">http://www.egu2016.eu/</a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;">>.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Please note that the deadline for submitting abstracts is 13 January 2016.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Hope to see you in Vienna!</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Best regards,</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Richard</span></div>
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The Global Geodetic Observing System: Monitoring Geohazards (co-organized)<br>
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<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Convener: Richard Gross</span><br style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Co-Conveners: Erricos C. Pavlis</span><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Daniela Thaller</span><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
John LaBrecque </span><br style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Within the decade Global Navigation Satellite Systems will undergo more than a fourfold expansion in the number of orbiting satellites coupled with significant
increases in the availability of real time GNSS data from globally distributed ground networks. GGOS seeks to advance geohazards monitoring and mitigation through network expansion and advances in the real time GNSS data analysis of the International GNSS
Service's Multi-GNSS real time capabilities (IGSRT and M-GEX).</span><br style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This session seeks to explore the possibilities of current and future advances in these systems upon disaster mitigation and response. We seek informed presentations
on the current state of very low latency data streaming for the various GNSS constellations. We also seek reports and comparisons of techniques applied to the rapid assessment and early warning of earthquakes and tsunamis in accord with Resolution #2 of the
IUGG 2015 regarding the utility and need for GNSS to focus upon disasters associated with mega-thrust earthquakes. We also welcome presentations related to advanced concepts and applications of real time GNSS data related to the mitigation of other hazards
such as volcanic plumes, flood warning, severe storms, etc. </span><br style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Besides focussing on the use of geodetic observing systems for geohazards monitoring, this session is also a forum for discussing past, present, and future geodetic
observing networks and the integration of the technique-specific observing networks into an integrated geodetic observing system.</span><br style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, sans-serif;">
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