| Date: | 2006-02-16 17:53:00 | |
| Sender: | Wolfgang Bosch, C.K. Shum, Phil Woodworth and Gary Mitchum <Wolfgang Bosch <bosch@dgfi.badw.de>> | |
| Subject: | [SLR-Mail] No. 1439: (no subject) | |
| Author: | Wolfgang Bosch, C.K. Shum, Phil Woodworth and Gary Mitchum | |
| Content: | ******************************************************************************** SLR Electronic Mail 2006-02-16 17:53:00 UTC Message No. 1439 ******************************************************************************** Author: Wolfgang Bosch, C.K. Shum, Phil Woodworth and Gary Mitchum Subject: (no subject) Subject: International Altimeter Service (IAS) - VENICE2006 meeting Subject: International Altimeter Service (IAS) - VENICE2006 meeting Dear Colleagues! We cordially invite you to a splinter meeting during the VENICE2006 conference, dedicated to the --------------------------------------------------- Creation of an International Altimetry Service (IAS) taking place on Wednesday, March 15th, 18:00 – 19:30 in Room 2-6. --------------------------------------------------- The initiative emanates from the IAS Planning Group (IAS-PG), commissioned by - the Global Sea Level Observing System, GLOSS, - the International Association of Geodesy, IAG, and - the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans, IAPSO. Satellite altimetry will have to become an essential component of global Earth observing systems as coordinated by GEOSS (Global Earth Observing System of Systems). It is requested to provide long, accurate time series of multi-mission radar and laser altimeter data. It requires standards on formats, processing algorithms, and geophysical/media/instrument corrections. Attention must be paid to the embedding into a reference frame and to the long-term stability of the altimeter and ancillary sensors implying cross-calibration between all altimeter missions as well as between different altimeter technologies (pulse limited nadir, laser, wide swath, Delay Doppler, etc.). All these requirements are best fulfilled by an International Altimetry Service (IAS), acting in a mission and agency independent capacity, but set up by the integration of many organisations already providing data and products for satellite altimetry. IAS-PG therefore intends to submit a Call for participating in the envisaged IAS. Proposals will be sought for data and product centres, analysis centres, and a Central Bureau which should operate a common IAS Information Service. The draft Terms of References (TOR) for the IAS is attached to this email. The TOR - allows accommodation of all organisations and groups that generate, archive, distribute and analyse altimeter data, work on calibration and validation or generate value-added products, - keeps the organisation as lean as possible (with the Central Bureau and the Information Centre being necessary components), and - ensures a proper representation of sciences (e.g. OST-ST) by means of the Advisory Board. Herewith you are cordially invited to give comments and suggestions on the TOR and the IAS organisation. Expressions of interest to participate in the IAS are welcome. We address in particular those institutions which have sufficient resources to host the Central Bureau coordinating and managing the IAS and operating the Information Service. If you like to comment on the TOR or the IAS organisation, please either - post emails to ias-pg@dgfi.badw.de , an open mailing list for discussions on the envisaged IAS. You may subscribe this list or just look at the archive, see http://www.dgfi.badw.de/mailman/listinfo/ias-pg - or visit http://www.dgfi.badw.de/wiki, a collaborative website of the IAS-PG where the draft TOR is also found and can be discussed. At the VENICE2006 splinter meeting we will review all contributions, discuss on the final TOR and consider further steps for the establishment of IAS. Wolfgang Bosch, C.K. Shum, Phil Woodworth and Gary Mitchum Please accept our apologies for multiple receipts of this email. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang Bosch, DGFI, Alfons-Goppel-Straße 11, D-80539 München, Germany Tel. +49 89 23031-1115 Fax: -240 email: bosch@dgfi.badw.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Wolfgang Bosch ******************************************************************************** |