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Suggested Citation:"E Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 1997. The Global Positioning System for the Geosciences: Summary and Proceedings of a Workshop on Improving the GPS Reference Station Infrastructure for Earth, Oceanic, and Atmospheric Science Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9254.
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Appendix E

Workshop Agenda

Improving the DGPS Infrastructure for Earth & Atmospheric Science Applications

March 11–12, 1996

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Foothills Laboratory

Boulder, Colorado

March 11, 1996

MORNING SESSION

8:00

REMARKS BY STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR: INTRODUCTION, DISCUSSION OF AGENDA AND GOALS OF THE WORKSHOP

Randolph Ware

8:10

BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO CIVILIAN GPS POLICY AND MANAGEMENT WITHIN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Randolph Ware

SPEAKER

 
 

George Wiggers, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy, U.S. Department of Transportation — The GPS Information and Policy Organizational Structure

8:40

NETWORK OPERATORS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS

Ruth Neilan

SPEAKERS

 
 

William Strange, National Geodetic Survey (NOAA) — The National Geodetic Survey Continuously Operating Reference System (CORS)

 

Gene Hall, U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center — USCG Differential GPS Navigation Service

 

Loni Czekalski, Office of the Associate Administrator for Research and Acquisition, Federal Aviation Administration — Federal Aviation Administration GPS Augmentation Systems

 

Gerhard Beutler, University of Berne and Chair, International GPS Service for Geodynamics (IGS) — The International GPS Service for Geodynamics: Mission, Development, Network, Structure, Products, and Current Projects

10:30

ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR POSTER SESSION ON DATA FORMATS AND AVAILABILITY — INCLUDING DEMONSTRATIONS ON ACCESS TO DATA ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB

Ruth Neilan

Suggested Citation:"E Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 1997. The Global Positioning System for the Geosciences: Summary and Proceedings of a Workshop on Improving the GPS Reference Station Infrastructure for Earth, Oceanic, and Atmospheric Science Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9254.
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POSTER PAPER AUTHORS

 
 

Jeff Behr, Scripps Institution of Oceanography — Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center (SOPAC) and Southern California Precision GPS Geodetic Array (PGGA)

 

Seth Gutman and Russ Chadwick, NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory — Shared Use of DGPS Data for NOAA Weather Forecasting and Climate Monitoring

 

William Prescott, U.S. Geological Survey — Southern California Integrated GPS Network (SCIGN), and related USGS GPS-Based Research

 

Nancy King, U.S. Geological Survey — Bay Area Regional Deformation (BARD) Network

 

Christian Rocken, University Navstar Consortium — Nationwide GPS Array in Japan

 

Neil Westin, National Geodetic Survey (NOAA) — CORS Data Archiving and Access System

 

Maurice Dube, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center — Flow, Distribution, and Archiving of Global GPS Data and Products for the IGS and the Role of the Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS)

 

James Zumberg, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory — Worldwide IGS Data Archiving and Communications

 

Ulf Lindqwister and Keith Stark, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory — GPS Operations and Data Handling at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

11:00

SITE, NETWORK, AND DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR GPS-BASED REMOTE SENSING OF THE ATMOSPHERE

Robert Serafin

SPEAKERS

 
 

Ronald McPherson, National Center for Environmental Protection (National Weather Service) —Potential for Improved Weather Forecasting through the Use of Ground-Based GPS Sensing and GPS Occultation Satellites

 

Richard Anthes, University Consortium for Atmospheric Research — Potential Atmospheric Research Uses of GPS-Based Refractivity Sounding Data

 

Judith Curry, University of Colorado, Boulder — Precipitable Water Vapor Data Requirements for Climate Modeling

 

Michael Bevis, University of Hawaii — Site, Network, and Ancillary Data Requirements for GPS Sensing of Precipitable Water Vapor

 

Bill Kuo and Larry Cornman, National Center for Atmospheric Research — Precipitable Water Vapor and Slant-Path Water Vapor Data Assimilation into Forecast Models, Defining Humidity Field Structure with Ground-Based GPS Arrays, Real-Time Data Requirements

AFTERNOON SESSION

1:15 pm

SITE, NETWORK, AND DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR GPS-BASED REMOTE SENSING OF THE ATMOSPHERE (CONTINUED)

E. Ann Berman

SPEAKERS

 
 

Tom Runge, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory — Meteorological and GPS Data Requirements for GPS-Based Sensing of Precipitable Water

 

Frederick Solheim and Chris Alber, University Navstar Consortium — Antenna, Site, and Ancillary Data Requirements for GPS-Based Slant-Path Water Vapor Sensing

Suggested Citation:"E Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 1997. The Global Positioning System for the Geosciences: Summary and Proceedings of a Workshop on Improving the GPS Reference Station Infrastructure for Earth, Oceanic, and Atmospheric Science Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9254.
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Mike Exner, University Consortium for Atmospheric Research — Ground-Based Site and Network Requirements for GPS Sounding from Orbit, Plans for Privately Funded GPS Sounding Satellites

 

Dave Anderson, USAF Phillips Laboratory — Infrastructure Requirements DOD Ionospheric Mapping Research

 

Per Enge and Y.C. Chao, Stanford University — Ionospheric Modeling and Research for the FAA Wide-Area Augmentation System

2:15

SITE, NETWORK, AND DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR STATIC POSITIONING

Thomas Herring

SPEAKERS

 
 

Roger Bilham, University of Colorado, Boulder — Reference Site Infrastructure Requirements: Stable Monumentation, Anchors, Inclinometry, Reference Marks

 

Arthur Niell, Haystack Observatory and Charles Meertens, University Navstar Consortium — Reference Site Infrastructure Requirements: Low Multipath Antennas, Antenna Mounting, Height and Mixing Effects, Snow Effects

 

Frederick Solheim and Christian Rocken, University Navstar Consortium — Pointed Radiometry for Coordinate and Orbit Accuracy; Potential for Tropospheric Estimation With GPS Along Each Line-Of-Site

 

Mike Watkins, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory — Crustal Strain Monitoring Requirements

 

Mark Murray, Stanford University — Crustal Site, Network, and Data Requirements for Volcano Deformation Studies; Stanford University Continuously Operated DGPS Network

4:00

SITE, NETWORK, AND DATA NEEDS FOR DYNAMIC POSITIONING AND NAVIGATION

W. Kenneth Stewart

SPEAKERS

 
 

Robin Bell, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Chreston Martin, EG &G — Site, Network, and Data Needs for Airborne Gravimetry, Photogrammetry, And Polar Research

 

George Born, University of Colorado, Boulder and Bob Schutz, University of Texas, Austin — Site, Network, and Data Requirements for Satellite Altimetry and for the Dynamic Positioning of the Wake Shield Experiment

 

Kevin Leaman, University of Miami — Infrastructure Requirements for Oceanography

 

Dave Carlson, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Technology Division — Positioning/Navigation Requirements for Aircraft and Sondes Used in Atmospheric Research

 

Tom Yunck, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory — Network and Data Requirements for Satellite Gravimetry, Scientific View of the Wide-Area Augmentation System (WAAS)

 

Paul Montgomery, Stanford University — Autonomous Vehicle Navigation and Control Using GPS

March 12, 1996

MORNING SESSION

8:30

WORKING GROUP SESSIONS

 

Working Group 1 Augmented GPS Networks, Data Sources, and Static Positioning

 

Working Group 2 Dynamic Positioning/Navigation

Suggested Citation:"E Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 1997. The Global Positioning System for the Geosciences: Summary and Proceedings of a Workshop on Improving the GPS Reference Station Infrastructure for Earth, Oceanic, and Atmospheric Science Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9254.
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Working Group 3 GPS-based Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere

AFTERNOON SESSION

1:30

PLENARY SESSION

 

Reports from the Three Working Groups

 

Closing Remarks from Committee Chair and Workshop Sponsors

Suggested Citation:"E Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 1997. The Global Positioning System for the Geosciences: Summary and Proceedings of a Workshop on Improving the GPS Reference Station Infrastructure for Earth, Oceanic, and Atmospheric Science Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9254.
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Suggested Citation:"E Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 1997. The Global Positioning System for the Geosciences: Summary and Proceedings of a Workshop on Improving the GPS Reference Station Infrastructure for Earth, Oceanic, and Atmospheric Science Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9254.
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Suggested Citation:"E Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 1997. The Global Positioning System for the Geosciences: Summary and Proceedings of a Workshop on Improving the GPS Reference Station Infrastructure for Earth, Oceanic, and Atmospheric Science Applications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9254.
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