[IGSMAIL-5196]: AGU Session G08: High Rate GPS and Natural Hazards

[Yehuda Bock]

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IGS Electronic Mail      29 Aug 14:39:12 PDT 2005      Message Number 5196
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Author: Yehuda Bock and Herb Dragert

Call for Papers, AGU Special Session G08: High-Rate GPS: 
Contributions to Natural Hazards Mitigation

We request contributions to a special session on the role of 
high-rate GPS in natural hazards mitigation:

http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm05/review/?pageRequest=search&show=detail&sessid=262

The devastating 2004 Great Sumatra-Andaman Islands earthquake and 
subsequent tsunami focused the world's attention on glaring 
deficiencies in our abilities to mitigate natural hazards. One tool 
that has shown great promise is high-rate (1 Hz or greater) 
continuous GPS networks that are being established globally and 
regionally along active plate boundary zones, for example in Japan, 
California, Sumatra, and the Pacific Northwest. Often data and 
precise site positions are available in real-time (1 s latency), 
making these networks ideal for providing input to early warning 
systems for large earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and landslides. We 
invite contributions for active efforts in these areas and examples 
of how these methods are being or can be applied to natural hazards 
mitigation.

Please contact one of the conveners for more information.

Yehuda Bock
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
ybock at ucsd.edu

Herb Dragert
Pacific Geosciences Center
hdragert at NRCan.gc.ca

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