[IGSMAIL-6508] GGOS Session at EGU 2012

[Behrend, Dirk (GSFC-698.0)[NVI INC]]

Authors: Dirk Behrend and Richard Gross


Dear Colleagues -

As part of the EGU General Assembly that will be held in Vienna, Austria 
during 22-27 April 2012 there will be a session on "The Global Geodetic 
Observing System: Tying and Integrating Geodetic Techniques for Research 
and Applications". The description of the session is given below.

On behalf of the conveners we would like to draw your attention to this 
session and encourage you to participate in it. We are developing a 
rich session that will explore the consistency and integration of 
measurements from different geodetic techniques and their use in 
studying the Earth's time-variable surface geometry. We hope that you 
will be able to join us in Vienna for this exciting session. More 
information about the EGU General Assembly 2012 can be obtained from 
its web site at http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2012/.

Please note that the deadline for submitting abstracts is 17 January 2012.

Hope to see you in Vienna!

Best regards,

Dirk and Richard

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G2.1:  The Global Geodetic Observing System: Tying and Integrating 
Geodetic Techniques for Research and Applications

IAG's Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) provides the means for 
integrating ground- and spaced-based observations of geodetic techniques. 
Nowadays, large inter-technique discrepancies are seen in combinations 
and they reflect the presence of errors whose nature and origin are not 
well understood. Modernization of geodetic infrastructures and homogeneous 
processing of geodetic data are essential to reduce such discrepancies 
and support consistent observation of Earth's time-variable surface 
geometry (including ocean and ice surfaces), ocean currents, mass and 
volume changes.

This session is a forum to discuss integration of geodetic techniques, 
the actual discrepancies highlighted by the combinations, their possible 
causes and corrections, as well as novel plans and strategies for 
development of infrastructures and their application to Earth's surface 
monitoring.

Conveners:

Richard Gross
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
richard.gross at jpl.nasa.gov

Erricos Pavlis
Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC
epavlis at umbc.edu

Manuela Seitz
Deutsches Geodaetisches Forschungsinstitut
seitz at dgfi.badw.de

Dirk Behrend
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Dirk.Behrend at nasa.gov