[IGSMAIL-3193]: AGENDA - IGS LEO Pilot Project Meeting, Feb 6-8 2001
Ruth E. Neilan
ruth.neilan at jpl.nasa.gov
Tue Jan 30 12:00:43 PST 2001
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IGS Electronic Mail 30 Jan 12:00:52 PST 2001 Message Number 3193
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Author: Ruth Neilan, IGSCB
Dear colleagues,
The agenda for the LEO Pilot Project Meetings in Potsdam next week
has been posted to the GFZ web site today. It is included below for
your reference. The current list of participants is also noted
below. Apologies if you receive this message more than once in an
effort to distribute this more quickly.
If you have any questions, please contact Katrin Weisse
(weisse at gfz-potsdam.de) or myself.
best regards,
Ruth
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IGS LEO PILOT PROJECT MEETING
February 5-8, 2001
Low Earth orbiter Missions:
Status of CHAMP Mission
Prospect of SAC-C and Future Missions (GRACE,...}
Ground and Space GPS Observations
Ad-Hoc Meeting for IGS Real-Time Working Group Formation
GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam Germany
http://op.gfz-potsdam.de/D1/LEOW/LEOW_index.html
Organizers: Ch. Reigber (GFZ), R. Neilan (IGSCB/JPL), M. Watkins (JPL)
Meeting Sponsors
International GPS Service (IGS)
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ)
Meeting Organization:
Prof. Dr. Christoph Reigber, GFZ Potsdam,
Chair IGS Governing Board and CHAMP Project Director
Ms. Ruth Neilan, IGS Central Bureau, JPL Pasadena
Director, IGS Central Bureau
Dr. Michael Watkins, JPL Pasadena
Chair IGS Working Group on Low Earth Orbiters
Additional Low Earth Orbiter Working Group Members:
Dr. John Dow, ESA/ESOC Darmstadt
Dr. Chris Rocken, GPST, UCAR Boulder
Prof. Markus Rothacher, TU Munich
Prof. Bob Schutz, CSR UT Austin
Dr. Tom Yunck, JPL Pasadena
Local Organization provided by GFZ Potsdam:
Katrin Weisse
Dr. Peter Offermann
Angelika Svarovsky
Agenda
Monday, February 5
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13:00 - 18:00 Registration
Tuesday, February 6
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8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 Overview and Introduction (Ch. Reigber, GFZ / M. Watkins, JPL)
IGS Pilot Project - Status of LEO CfP, Meeting Goals
CHAMP Focus
9:30 - 12:30 CHAMP Status and Developments (GFZ)
(~20 minutes each includes discussion)
- Satellite bus & subsystems (Bock)
- Science instruments (Grunwaldt/Bock)
- Ground segment & data flow (Massmann/Schwintzer)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:00 CHAMP Status - Data processors & products
- CHAMP Orbit & Gravity (R. König, GFZ)
- Magnetics (Lühr)
- Occultations (Wickert)
- Data archive & distribution (Ritschel)
- Next major events (Reigber)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
LEO Missions Status & Plans
14:00 - 15:45 LEO Mission presentations and discussions
(~20 Minutes each includes discussion)
- JPL's BlackJack Flight GPS Receiver on CHAMP and SAC-C (T P Yunck, JPL)
- Availability of SAC-C Flight Data (J F Zumberge, JPL)
- Status of GRACE Mission (B. Tapley, CSR, Ch. Reigber, GFZ)
- Status of COSMIC project (C. Rocken, B. Kuo, D. Hunt, B. Schreiner,
S.Sokolovskiy, UCAR)
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 - 18:00 Flight GPS Analysis Results
(~20 Minutes each includes discussion)
- GFZ's orbit generation for CHAMP (König, Neumayer, GFZ
- JPL's CHAMP POD process (R. Muellerschoen, JPL)
- Analysis of CHAMP and TOPEX GPS data (F. Mercier, S. Gratton, CNES)
- LEO Activities at AIUB (H. Bock, U. Hugentobler, G. Beutler, AIUB)
- GPS LEO activities at ESOC (C. Garcia, J. Dow, ESOC)
18:00 Ice breaker party
Wednesday February 7
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Note: Included below are proposed contributions submitted with the
original registration form to GFZ, contributions and introductions
from the pilot project participants have been solicited and will be
included during the discussions.
9:00 IGS LEO Project Organizational Meeting
- Overview (M. Watkins, JPL)
- Approval of meeting agenda
- Summary of LEO CFP Responses (M. Watkins, JPL, R. Neilan IGS CB/JPL)
9:30 - 10:45 Analysis Issues: IGS LEO Analysis Contributions,
Introductions and Approaches
(~5-10 min summaries)
- JPL's IGS AC as in LEO Proposal (F. Webb, JPL)
- IGS AAC activities in LEO pilot project (R. Muellerschoen, JPL)
- GFZ’s AAC contributions to the IGS LEO pilot project (König)
Other analysis introductions and reports
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 13:00 LEO Project Organization Discussion
Mission
Goals and objectives
Structure - responsible people for the various components
Interfaces with LEO missions
Identify Critical issues, analysis requirements, data access, formats, etc.
Requirements
Proposed Schedule
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 17:30 Infrastructure Organization - Response to Project Formation
14:00 - 14:45 Network and Stations Roles and Issues
(~5-10 min each)
- JPL's LEO support ground network (D. Stowers, JPL)
- CHAMP support GPS ground network of GFZ (C. Reigber, GFZ)
- Proposed LEO activities at the Geodetic Observatory Pecny, Czech
Republic (J. Simek, et al., Pecny Obs.)
- Ohio State University IGS LEO Pilot Project: Status and Plans for
the Great Lakes GPS Network (C.K. Shum, OSU)
Other stations introductions and reports
14:45 - 15:30 FORMATS Discussion (W. Gurtner, AIUB)
- RINEX Extensions for LEO GPS Data (W. Gurtner, AIUB)
- Binary exchange format for GPS highrate data (W. Köhler, GFZ)
Other format issues for LEO PP
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 -16:45 Data Centers
(5-10 min)
- CDDIS data center support of LEO missions (C. Noll, GSFC)
- GFZ’s CHAMP data archive and data distribution (B. Ritschel, C. Förste, GFZ)
- GENESIS Update (T. Yunck, JPL)
Other DC introductions and reports
16:45 - 17:30 Project Infrastructure Discussions
- Network configuration, POD and high rate stations for occultation
- Data Flow
- Data management, data center structures and access
- Data Exchange: Formats, flight and ground receiver data
- Schedule
Thursday February 8
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9:00 - 12:00 LEO Project Planning Discussions
- Remaining Issues, continuation from Wednesday
11:30 - 13:00 Summary Session, Plans
Actions to be taken
Next meeting
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 IGS Real-Time Working Group - Ad Hoc Session (Coffee Break @ ~15:30)
- Summary of Discussions on Real-time from IGS Strategic Plan;
Actions taken at IGS GB meeting December 2000 (R. Neilan)
Review draft charter
Consensus to proceed
Establishment of WG
Real-time formats, Establishing an IGS standard (W. Gurtner, A. Moore)
Discussion of current formats
Real-time vs. long term archive of IGS data
Implementation Issues - clarification
Current Utilization of Real Time Networks
WG leadership and membership
Next actions
17:00 Close
Participants
(as of Jan 30, 2001)
1. Gerald Baustert, GFZ, Germany
2. Georg Beyerle, GFZ, Germany
3. Heike Bock, AIUB, Switzerland
4. Ralf Bock, GFZ, Germany
5. Mark Caissy, NRC, Canada
6. Alessandro Caporali, University of Padova, Italy
7. Stefano Casotto, University of Padova, Italy
8. John Dow, ESA/ESOC, Germany
9. Louis Duquesne, CNES, France
10. Lou Estey, UNAVCO/UCAR, USA
11. Kevin Fleming, GFZ, Germany
12. Christoph Förste, GFZ, Germany
13. Roman Galas, GFZ, Germany
14. Carlos Garcia, ESOC, Germany
15. Gerd Gendt, GFZ, Germany
16. Gianluca Graglia, Alenia Spazio, Roma, Italy
17. Serge Gratton, CNES, France
18. Ludwig Grunwaldt, GFZ, Germany
19. Werner Gurtner, AIUB, Switzerland
20. Phillip Hartl, Germany
21. Stefan Heise, DLR, Germany
22. Urs Hugentobler, AIUB, Switzerland
23. Norbert Jakowski, DLR, Germany
24. Klaus-Peter Johnsen, GKSS, Germany
25. Zhigui Kang, CSR, USA
26. Rolf König, GFZ, Germany
27. Jakub Kostelecky, Pecny Obs., Czech Republic
28. Jan Kostelecky, Prague Techn. Univ., Czech Republic
29. Gerhard Kruizinga, JPL, USA
30. Hermann Lühr, GFZ, Germany
31. Finn Bo Madsen, KMS, Denmark
32. Christian Marquardt, GFZ, Germany
33. Franz-Heinrich Massmann, GFZ, Germany
34. Charles Meertens, UNAVCO/UCAR, USA
35. Bill Melbourne, GFZ/JPL, Germany/USA
36. Flavian Mercier, CNES, France
37. Angelyn W. Moore, JPL, USA
38. Ron Muellerschoen, JPL, USA
39. Antonio Nardi, Telespazio, Roma, Italy
40. Ruth E. Neilan, JPL, USA
41. Roland Neuber, AWI, Germany
42. Karl-Hans Neumayer, GFZ, Germany
43. Jürgen Neumeyer, GFZ, Germany
44. Carey Noll, GSFC, USA
45. Markus Ramatschi, GFZ, Germany
46. Christoph Reigber, GFZ, Germany
47. Hyung-Jin Rim, CSR, USA
48. Bernd Ritschel, GFZ, Germany
49. Chris Rocken, UNAVCO/UCAR, USA
50. Uwe Schäfer, BKG, Germany
51. Torsten Schmidt, GFZ, Germany
52. Bob Schutz, CSR, USA
53. Volker Schwieger, GFZ, Germany
54. Peter Schwintzer, GFZ, Germany
55. C.K. Shum, OSU, USA
56. Jaroslav Simek, Pecny Obs., Czech Republic
57. Dave Stowers, JPL, USA
58. Francesco Vespe, ASI, Italy
59. Pieter Visser, TU Delft, Netherlands
60. Frank Webb, JPL, USA
61. Andreas Wehrenpfennig, DLR, Germany
62. Jens Wickert, GFZ, Germany
63. Roger Wood, NERC, UK
64. Thomas Yunck, JPL, USA
65. James F. Zumberge, JPL, USA
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