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Dear colleagues, <br>
<p>we, that are Mathis, Sara, Alexandre and Benedikt, want to invite
you to submit an abstract to our new session on "<b>Combination
strategies for consistent geodetic products</b>" (G2.5) at the
EGU General Assembly 2019 in Vienna, Austria (7.-12. April 2019).
The deadline for the abstract submission is <b>10. January 2019</b>!!</p>
<p>Link to EGU 2019 website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.egu2019.eu/">https://www.egu2019.eu/</a></p>
<p>Link to the abstract submission:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://egu2019.eu/abstracts_and_programme/how_to_submit_an_abstract.html">https://egu2019.eu/abstracts_and_programme/how_to_submit_an_abstract.html</a><br>
</p>
<p>This session will be a totally new session covering all topics
around the combination of geodetic techniques and parameters.
Geodetic parameters, as we all know, are integral quantities of a
complex and continuously changing planet Earth and therefore, we
have to study and understand their interactions and resulting
potential tradeoffs in their common adjustment. Please find below
the detailed session description:</p>
<p>The combination of space and terrestrial geodetic techniques is a
prerequisite for the integrated estimation of a multitude of
geodetic parameters such as quasar and station positions (and the
respective motions), satellite orbits, Earth's gravity field
coefficients, Earth orientation parameters (EOP), Earth's
thermospheric parameters and atmospheric conditions. These
parameters depend strongly on combination strategies or adjustment
theories like the least-squares and Kalman filter estimation at
different levels and the co-location on ground and in space. The
estimated parameters are affected by real geophysical signals and
artifacts in geodetic observations at the same time. Their
separation still yields a very challenging objective. Moreover,
the consideration and interpretation of inter-technique and
inter-parameter correlations and dependencies may enhance our
knowledge on systematic effects, improve the consistency between
different observational techniques, and may help to mitigate
artifacts in geodetic time series. In addition to the prior
mentioned aspects, also the time transfer between observing
systems and integrative technologies at fundamental stations help
revealing inter-technique biases. All these estimation and
combination strategies provide invaluable tools to identify and to
potentially resolve technique-specific or inter-technique biases.<br>
This session provides a forum to discuss combination strategies,
future integrative technologies, parameter correlations, and
inter-technique biases w.r.t. their impact on geodetic parameters.
We especially encourage contributions that focus on the combined
adjustment of parameters to improve their consistency and
contributions that address innovative combination strategies. <br>
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<p>This session is organized and chaired by<b> E</b><b>arly Career
Scientists</b>! Our session also participates in <b>peer-reviewed
proceedings</b> available for the first time at the coming EGU
2019. If you submit an abstract to our session, you will have the
opportunity to publish your research in an <b>open-access EGU
journal</b>.<br>
</p>
<p>We apologize if you get this email multiple times via different
mailing lists! </p>
<p>If you have any further questions please contact any of us
directly;-)</p>
<p>See you in Vienna, <br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>Mathis Bloßfeld (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:mathis.blossfeld@tum.de">mathis.blossfeld@tum.de</a>)<br>
</p>
<p>Sara Bruni (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:sara.bruni4@unibo.it">sara.bruni4@unibo.it</a>)<br>
</p>
<p>Alexandre Belli (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:alexandrejeanvincent.belli@nasa.gov">alexandrejeanvincent.belli@nasa.gov</a>)<br>
</p>
Benedikt Soja (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:Benedikt.S.Soja@jpl.nasa.gov">Benedikt.S.Soja@jpl.nasa.gov</a>)
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Dr.-Ing. Mathis Blossfeld
Deutsches Geodaetisches Forschungsinstitut
der Technischen Universitaet Muenchen (DGFI-TUM)
phone: +49 89 23031 1119
fax: +49 89 23031 1240
email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mathis.blossfeld@tum.de">mathis.blossfeld@tum.de</a>
mail: Arcisstrasse 21, 80333 Muenchen, Germany
web: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.dgfi.tum.de">www.dgfi.tum.de</a></pre>
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