| Date: | 2008-08-20 09:10:00 | |
| Sender: | Richard Gross <Richard Gross <Richard.Gross@jpl.nasa.gov>> | |
| Subject: | [SLR-Mail] No. 1712: GGOS Session at Fall AGU Meeting | |
| Author: | Richard Gross | |
| Content: | ******************************************************************************** SLR Electronic Mail 2008-08-20 09:10:00 UTC Message No. 1712 ******************************************************************************** Author: Richard Gross Subject: GGOS Session at Fall AGU Meeting Subject: GGOS Session at Fall AGU Meeting Subject: GGOS Session at Fall AGU Meeting Dear Colleagues - As part of the 2008 Fall Meeting of the AGU that will be held in San =20 Francisco, California during 15-19 December 2008 there will be a =20 session on ”The Global Geodetic Observing System: Science and =20 Instrumentation=94. The description of the session is given below. On behalf of the conveners I would like to draw your attention to =20 this session and encourage you to participate in it. We are =20 developing a rich session that will describe the Global Geodetic =20 Observing System, its instrumentation and use in addressing =20 geodetically demanding scientific topics like global sea level =20 change, glacial isostatic adjustment, and Earth deformation. We hope =20 that you will be able to join us in San Francisco for this exciting =20 session. More information about the 2008 Fall Meeting of the AGU can =20= be obtained from its web site at Please note that the deadline for submitting abstracts is 10 =20 September 2008. Hope to see you in San Francisco! Best regards, Richard .......................................................... G04: The Global Geodetic Observing System: Science and Instrumentation The Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) provides measurements of =20 the time varying gravity, rotation, and shape of the Earth using =20 instruments located on the ground and in space. These measurements =20 need to be accurate to better than a part per billion in order to =20 advance our understanding of the underlying processes that are =20 causing the Earth´s rotation, gravity, and shape to change. The =20 terrestrial and celestial reference frames within which the =20 measurements are taken need to be at least an order of magnitude =20 better than this in order to ensure that the measurements are not =20 corrupted by errors in the reference frames. Mass transport in the =20 global water cycle, sea level change, crustal deformation, and =20 interplanetary spacecraft navigation are examples of particularly =20 demanding applications of geodetic measurement systems. Designing the =20= instrumentation and observing networks that are needed to provide =20 geodetic measurements of the accuracy and stability required for =20 these and other applications is an ongoing challenge for GGOS. This =20 session will be a forum for discussing demanding scientific =20 applications of global geodetic measurement systems and the =20 instrumentation and networks that are needed to fulfill those demands. Conveners; Richard Gross Jet Propulsion Laboratory 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA, USA 91109 818 354-4010 Richard.Gross@jpl.nasa.gov Mike Pearlman Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden Street Cambridge, MA, USA 02138 617 495-7481 mpearlman@cfa.harvard.edu Hans-Peter Plag University of Nevada Reno, NV, USA 89557 775 682-8779 hpplag@unr.edu Markus Rothacher GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam Telegrafenberg A17 Potsdam, DEU D-14473 ++49-331-288-1101 rothacher@gfz-potsdam.de ...........................................................= From: Richard Gross ******************************************************************************** |