[IGSMAIL-5160]: GPS data processing meeting at UCL in November

[Marek Ziebart]

******************************************************************************
IGS Electronic Mail      15 Jun 14:41:24 PDT 2005      Message Number 5160
******************************************************************************

Author: Marken Ziebart (via IGS CB)

....with our apologies for cross posting


MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS


The Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes and 
Tectonics (COMET) is pleased to announce a meeting with the following 
title

Advances in GPS Data Processing
and Modelling for Geodynamics

to be held at University College London
on 9th and 10th November 2005.

The purpose of the meeting is to bring together the global community 
of GPS geodesy analysts with geophysicists, geologists, and other 
Earth scientists to discuss advances in GPS data processing, 
particularly in the light of the recent traumatic events in South 
East Asia and the increasing number of CGPS networks being 
established for tectonic and other earth science research purposes. 
The meeting is a follow-on from one held at the Royal Astronomical 
Society in London by COMET earlier this year (see 
http://comet.nerc.ac.uk/news_rasmeeting.html) that was attended by 
around 150 people from all over the world

The meeting will include keynote talks from

Yoaz Bar-Sever	Earth Orbiter and Radiometric Systems Group, NASA-JPL

Geoff Blewitt		Research Professor, Nevada Bureau of Mines & Geology
  			and Seismological Laboratory, University of Nevada

Yehuda Bock		Director, Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array 
Center (SOPAC), and the California Spatial Reference Center (CSRC)

Tom Herring		Professor of Geophysics, Dept. of Earth, 
Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology

Urs Hugentobler	Head of GPS Research, Centre for Orbit Determination 
for Europe (CODE), University of Berne


The broad areas that the meeting is expected to cover are as follows:
7	review of, and major developments in, the major scientific 
GPS data processing software packages,
7	real-time geodynamics, monitoring, detection and warning systems,
7	reference frame realisation and loading effects,
7	antenna phase centre modelling,
7	atmospheric delay modelling,
7	the potential impact of Galileo, and
7	regional and global case studies.
Emphasis throughout the meeting will be on GPS data processing and 
modelling rather than on downstream geophysical modelling.

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

Abstracts in the form of a title and a 300-500 word summary are 
invited and should be sent (ideally by email) to the meeting 
organisers whose contact information is below

Professor Paul Cross and Dr Marek Ziebart
Department of Geomatic Engineering, University College London
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
Tel: +44 20 7679 7028   Fax: +44 20 7380 0453
Email: paul.cross at ge.ucl.ac.uk and marek.ziebart at ge,ucl.ac.uk

Deadline for abstracts:  13 July 2005




COMET is a Centre of Excellence in Earth Observation funded by the UK 
Natural Environment Research Council and led by Professor Barry 
Parsons.  It comprises geodesists and geophysicists from the 
Departments of Earth Science at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and 
the Department of Geomatic Engineering, University College London. 
For more details of COMET see http://comet.nerc.ac.uk/

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________



Dr.Marek Ziebart
Lecturer in Space Geodesy
Department of Geomatic Engineering
University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 1359 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7380 0453

E-mail: marek.ziebart at ge.ucl.ac.uk
http://www.ge.ucl.ac.uk/people/staff/academic_staff/marek_ziebart


One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, 
measured against reality, is primitive and childlike and yet it is 
the most precious thing we have.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) U. S. physicist, born in Germany.