[IGSMAIL-5186]: 'Advances in GPS Data Processing and Modelling' meeting - registration

[marek at ge.ucl.ac.uk]

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IGS Electronic Mail      16 Aug 14:44:10 PDT 2005      Message Number 5186
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Author: Marek Ziebart

With apologies for cross posting.

Registration is now open for the 'Advances in GPS Data Processing and
Modelling' meeting to be held at University College London, UK, 9th and
10th November, 2005. The registration form can be downloaded from:

http://www.ge.ucl.ac.uk/content/download/1444/8437/file/COMET_registration.doc

The organisers (Prof Paul Cross and Dr Marek Ziebart) would appreciate
early registration so that we can plan the logistics accordingly. Thanks
for your cooperation.

The meeting is hosted by the Centre for the Observation and Modelling of
Earthquakes and Tectonics (COMET), which consists of the Department of
Earth Sciences, University of Oxford,  the Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Cambridge, and the Department of Geomatic Engineering,
University College London.

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

The broad areas that the meeting will cover are as follows:

> Review of, and major developments in, the major scientific GPS data
processing software packages,
> Real-time geodynamics, monitoring, detection and warning systems,
> Reference frame realisation and loading effects,
> Antenna phase centre modelling,
> Atmospheric delay modelling,
> The potential impact of Galileo, and
> Regional and global case studies.

Emphasis throughout the meeting will be on GPS data processing and
modelling rather than on downstream geophysical modelling.