[IGSMAIL-7645] IGS Session at AGU 2018

[IGS Central Bureau]

Dear IGS Community Member,


The International GNSS Service (IGS) will be organizing a session at this
year’s American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Washington, DC. The Session,
number G021:  “Scientific Applications Enabled by the International GNSS
Service (IGS) and by Improvements to GNSS Products,” is being convened by
IGS former Governing Board member Geoffrey Blewitt of the University of
Nevada Reno, USA, and IGS Governing Board and Executive Committee member
Rolf Dach of the University of Bern, Switzerland.



The description of the session is as follows: “For nearly 25 years,
products of the International GNSS Service (IGS) have increasingly enabled
a broad diversity of scientific applications, such as Earth rotation,
tectonophysics, seismology and the earthquake cycle, glaciology and glacial
isostatic adjustment, global environmental change, sea level, terrestrial
water storage, time transfer, space weather and atmospheric science,
natural hazards and tsunami early warning, and fundamental physics.  The
recent inclusion of Galileo (Europe) and Beidou (China) to the established
GNSS – GPS(US) and GLONASS (Russia) – will eventually increase the number
of satellites to >100, offering potential new scientific applications.
Moreover, the continuous development and improvement of IGS products in
this fast-moving field with new GNSS satellites, systems, signals, models,
and GNSS data analysis methodology is a scientific challenge.  For this
session we solicit presentations on scientific applications that are
enabled by IGS products, and on improvements to quality and breadth of GNSS
products that will enable new science.”



The session description and additional details may be found on the AGU
website: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/Session/46559under the
Geodesy section, Earth Interior neighborhood, and Data & Emerging
Technologies SWIRL theme. It is cross-listed with tectonophysics,
seismology, natural hazards, and cryosphere events.



The IAG Global Geodetic Observing System, of which IGS is a component, will
also be hosting a session on "Essential Geodesy." The session conveners are
led by Kosuke Heki of Hokkaido University, Japan; with Michael Pearlman of
the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA; Matthias Madzak of
the Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying, Austria; and Richard Gross
of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA. Learn more about this session here:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/Session/49041.



AGU abstracts may be submitted until 1stof August 2018 via the AGU abstract
submission form: https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2018/abstract-submissions/.



We look forward to seeing many of you this December in Washington!


Best regards,


the IGS Central Bureau
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