[IGSMAIL-5636]: AGU 2007, Session G05: Earth's Reference System and Frame, Call for Papers.

[Frank Lemoine]

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IGS Electronic Mail      30 Aug 07:59:25 PDT 2007      Message Number 5636
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Author: Frank Lemoine

Dear Colleagues-

We draw your attention to the G05 session at the Fall AGU
 in San Francisco, California, USA December 10-14, 2007.

->Earth's Reference System and Frame: Geodesy, Geoscience, and Climate Change

We encourage submissions on the applications of the latest reference
fram realization, ITRF2005, its evaluation, combination methodology
and ideas and plans for the next generation improvements to the ITRF.

The abstract deadline is September 6, 2007 at 23:59 UT
 at the AGU website  http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/

Meeting information, including registration and housing
 information is also available at the above URL.

We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco.

Sincerely,

Donald Argus (Donald.F.Argus at jpl.nasa.gov)
Claude Boucher (claude.boucher at recherche.gouv.fr)
Frank Lemoine (Frank.Lemoine at gsfc.nasa.gov)

G05 Session Description:
(co-sponsor, Tectonophysics)

The International Terrestrial Reference System (ITRS)
forms the principals on which Earth's reference frame is established.
Its latest realization, International Terrestrial Reference Frame 2005
(ITRF2005), is determined from millions of estimates of site position
and thousands of estimates of Earth's spin, is stimulating research
on how the definition of Earth's reference frame impacts
our understanding a range of phenomena. We seek studies on Earth's scale,
translation, rotation, and spin, on the means by which they are defined
and determined using GNSS (GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo), SLR, VLBI, and DORIS,
and on how Earth's reference frame affects estimates of the rate
at which sites are rising and falling (and inference for postglacial
rebound),
estimates of the angular velocity of the plates (and inference for
tectonics),
estimates of gravity change from GRACE, and estimates of sea level rise
from TOPEX and Jason satellite altimetry.
We seek also studies on the theory on which Earth's reference frame
is constructed, on how International Astronomical Union resolutions
are satisfied, and on advances in modeling relativity.