| Date: | 1999-04-15 18:56:00 | |
| Sender: | NIMA/Jim Slater, CDDIS/Carey Noll <[Mailed Carey Noll <NOLL@cddis.gsfc.nasa.gov>]> | |
| Subject: | [SLR-Mail] No. 297: Second Circular: IGEX-98 Workshop | |
| Author: | NIMA | |
| Content: | ******************************************************************************** SLR Electronic Mail 1999-04-15 18:56:00 UTC Message No. 297 ******************************************************************************** Author: NIMA/Jim Slater, CDDIS/Carey Noll Subject: Second Circular: IGEX-98 Workshop Second Circular Call for Papers INTERNATIONAL GLONASS EXPERIMENT (IGEX-98) WORKSHOP September 13-14, 1999 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. OVERVIEW The first coordinated international campaign to collect and analyze GLONASS satellite data began on October 19, 1998 and is scheduled to terminate on April 19, 1999. This International GLONASS Experiment (IGEX-98) was jointly sponsored by the International Association of Geodesy´s (IAG) Commission VIII for the International Coordination of Space Techniques for Geodesy and Geodynamics (CSTG), the Institute of Navigation´s (ION) GLONASS-GPS Interoperability Working Group, the International GPS Service (IGS), and the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS). The IGEX-98 Steering Committee, the ION and the IGS are organizing a joint workshop on September 13-14, 1999 to discuss the results of IGEX-98 and possible plans for the future. This workshop will be held in conjunction with the ION Satellite Division´s 12(superscript: th) International Technical Meeting GPS-99 in Nashville, Tennessee (U.S.). The IGEX workshop will be run as a separate event prior to the GPS-99 conference. It will be held in the Nashville Convention Center, and will be the forum for this year´s meeting of the ION GLONASS-GPS Interoperability Working Group (GGIWG). A separate registration fee will be required for all attendees of the workshop as indicated below. (Workshop attendees who also wish to attend ION´s GPS-99 Technical Meeting after the workshop ends will be required to pay the standard conference registration fee.) The workshop will be an opportunity for participants to present and compare their findings, observations, and analyses resulting from the IGEX campaign. It will be a time to assess whether or not the objectives of the experiment were met and to discuss future plans for using and supporting GLONASS. Anyone is welcome to attend and participate. PRELIMINARY AGENDA The workshop sessions will be held between the hours of 8:30 am and 5:00 pm each day, with registration beginning at 8:00 am. ***Monday, September 13, 1999*** INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW, Chair: James Slater (NIMA) Overview of IGEX Campaign GLONASS Status, Performance and Plans RECEIVER TECHNOLOGY, Chair: Ruth Neilan (JPL) Software and Hardware Developments, Performance Analysis NETWORK OPERATIONS, Chair: Werner Gurtner (Astro. Inst.Univ. of Bern) Data Collection, Data Communications, Data Archiving, Formats, Preprocessing PANEL DISCUSSION -- Technology Issues, Station and Network Operations Issues Chairs: Werner Gurtner and Ruth Neilan EVENING RECEPTION ***Tuesday, September 14, 1999*** INTRODUCTION, Chair: Carey Noll (NASA GSFC) ORBIT DETERMINATION, Chair: Robert Weber (Technical Univ. of Vienna) Precise Orbit Computations, SLR Observations, Methodology TIME AND TIME TRANSFER, Chair: Wlodzimierz Lewandowski (BIPM) APPLICATIONS, Chair: TBD Reference Frames and Datum Transformations Geodetic Positioning Atmospheric and Ionospheric Studies GENERAL DISCUSSION -- GLONASS-GPS Interoperability Issues Chair: Pratap Misra (M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratories) PANEL DISCUSSION -- Future Plans (IGS, Manufacturers, Navigation Users, Scientific Community), Chairs: Gerhard Beutler (Astro. Inst. Univ. of Bern) and Pascal Willis (IGN) SUMMARY ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Abstracts are requested for oral and poster presentations. Abstracts must be in English and must not exceed one page. The deadline for submission of abstracts is May 21, 1999. Authors will be notified by June 21 about the acceptance of their abstracts and whether they will be oral or poster papers. All abstracts should be submitted electronically by connecting to one of the web sites referenced below and completing the online form. If you do not have access to the Internet, you may fax your abstract to Carey Noll at 301-614-5970 (USA). Submissions should include names and affiliations of all authors, and contact information for the responsible author including mailing address, phone and fax numbers and e-mail address. Final manuscripts for all papers including poster paper summaries are requested by September 30, 1999 to facilitate publication in the workshop proceedings. Instructions for submission of papers will be available on the web sites shown below. PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS Pre-registration is requested for all people planning to attend the workshop. A registration fee of $75.00 payable at the workshop will be required from each person attending. The pre-registration deadline is August 28, 1999. The pre-registration form can be found at the web sites listed below. Abstract submission and pre-registration can be done at the following web sites: IGN IGEX Web site http://lareg.ensg.ign.fr/IGEX ION IGEX Web site http://www.ion.org/workgroup.html GENERAL INFORMATION Nashville is known as Music City, U.S.A. It is the home of countless musicians and songwriters, the Grand Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame. Bluegrass, jazz and other styles of music can also be found in Nashville. Other attractions include Belle Meade Plantation (a 19(superscript: th) century Greek revival mansion), The Hermitage (home of Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the U.S.), The Parthenon (full-scale reproduction of Greek temple), Van Vechten Art Gallery at Fisk University, and riverboat rides. A few of the hotels in the vicinity of the Convention Center are listed below. In order to obtain the conference rates for the hotels, you must inform the hotel that you are attending the Institute of Navigation meeting. Renaissance (Headquarters Hotel, adjacent to the Convention Center): Phone 615-255-8400; $116 single/double per night, $136 club level per night Crowne Plaza: Phone 615-259-2000; $111 single/double per night Doubletree Hotel: Phone 615-244-8200; $99 single per night, $109 double per night Union Station Hotel: Phone 615-726-1001; $111 single per night, $131 double per night ClubHouse Inn: Phone 615-244-0150 Specific information about the workshop including the meeting circulars, program details and registration procedures will be available on the ION GGIWG web site under the IGEX heading at http://www.ion.org/workgroup.html and also at the IGN IGEX web site http://lareg.ensg.ign.fr/IGEX. Information about registering for the ION Satellite Division Meeting GPS-99 and general information about Nashville will be available on the ION web site at http://www.ion.org or the Nashville web site http://www.nashville.citysearch.com. Questions can be addressed to the Chair or Co-chair of the Organizing Committee. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Jim Slater, Chair NIMA, U.S.A. E-mail: slaterja@acq.osd.mil Phone: 703-588-7431 Carey Noll, Co-chair NASA GSFC, U.S.A. E-mail: noll@cddis.gsfc.nasa.gov Phone: 301-614-6542 Werner Gurtner, Astronomical Institute University of Bern, Switzerland (gurtner@aiub.unibe.ch) Wlodzimierz Lewandowski, Bur. Int´l des Poids et Mesures, France (wlewandowski@bipm.fr) Pratap Misra, M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratories, U.S.A. (misra@ll.mit.edu) Ruth Neilan, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, U.S.A. (ruth.neilan@jpl.nasa.gov) Robert Weber, Technical University of Vienna, Austria (rweber@luna.tuwien.ac.at) Pascal Willis, Institut Geographique National, France (pascal.willis@ensg.ign.fr) [Mailed From: Carey Noll ******************************************************************************** |