Subject: [SLR-Mail] No. 1698: 16th ILRW Session 10 "System Calibration Techniques and
From: John Luck and Yang Fumin <slrmail@dgfi.badw.de>

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SLR Electronic Mail          2008-07-11 12:45:00 UTC           Message No. 1698 
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Author: John Luck and Yang Fumin
Subject: 16th ILRW Session 10 &#8221;System Calibration Techniques and

Subject: 16th ILRW Session 10 &#8221;System Calibration Techniques and
On-Site
Quality Control&#8221;
CALL for PAPERS for
Session 10 &#8221;System Calibration Techniques and On-Site Quality
Control&#8221; of
the 16th International Workshop on Laser Ranging, Poznan, Poland,
October
13-17, 2008
Nominal Session Time: Wednesday 15 October, 16:30 - 18:00

We invite you to share your thoughts, experiences and plans about
System
Calibration Techniques and On-Site Quality Control during Session 10
in
Poznan. Topics we would like to hear about include - but are not
restricted
to -:
1. System calibration, or measuring the system delays in
near-real-time,
which is the cornerstone by which system accuracy is ensured.
2.Confirmation that the standard against which calibrations are
performed,
e.g. the ground target range, is always extremely well known. How are
these
calibrations and verifications done, especially with respect to
multi-target
or multi-colour calibrations, internal calibrations, timing system
calibrations, repeated ground surveys, and novel or intriguing
techniques?
3. With the advent of time transfer and transponder ranging, the need
to
separate the transmit-side and receive-side components of system
delay has
arisen, equivalent to measuring the exact UTC instants of pulse
passages
past the System Reference Point. It is of interest how this is
accomplished.
4.The Analysis Centres provide valuable quality control services by
feeding
back range and time biases and precision estimates to the stations on
a
daily or weekly basis. Nevertheless, it is better if much of this
burden is
undertaken by On-Site Quality Control at the stations, or groups of
stations. This topic includes performance assessment of all system
components including software, and methodologies for detecting,
identifying
and fixing errors (including unknown system biases) and for improving
station performance.
5. Contributions on local tie surveys and the possibility of routine
height
variation monitoring will also be most welcome.
6. Whatever else you think may be relevant to this session.

We hope that there will be plenty of discussion and sharing of ideas.
Summaries of what has been done and reported in the past are also
acceptable. Accordingly, we invite short oral presentations as well
as
full-length (10-12 minute) presentations, and posters with brief oral
introductions.

Please Email your ABSTRACTS by 10 September 2008 to both co-chairs:
Yang Fumin: yangfm@shao.ac.cn
John Luck: john-luck@bigpond.com

For more information, see:
http://www.astro.amu.edu.pl/ILRS_Workshop_2008/index.php

We look forward to seeing you in Poznan.

Warmest regards,
John Luck and Yang Fumin

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