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 |
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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 |
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George Wiggers, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy, U.S. Department of Transportation — The GPS Information and Policy Organizational Structure |
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8:40 |
NETWORK OPERATORS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS Ruth Neilan |
SPEAKERS |
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William Strange, National Geodetic Survey (NOAA) — The National Geodetic Survey Continuously Operating Reference System (CORS) |
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Gene Hall, U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center — USCG Differential GPS Navigation Service |
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Loni Czekalski, Office of the Associate Administrator for Research and Acquisition, Federal Aviation Administration — Federal Aviation Administration GPS Augmentation Systems |
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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 |
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10:30 |
ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR POSTER SESSION ON DATA FORMATS AND AVAILABILITY — INCLUDING DEMONSTRATIONS ON ACCESS TO DATA ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB Ruth Neilan |
POSTER PAPER AUTHORS |
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Jeff Behr, Scripps Institution of Oceanography — Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center (SOPAC) and Southern California Precision GPS Geodetic Array (PGGA) |
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Seth Gutman and Russ Chadwick, NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory — Shared Use of DGPS Data for NOAA Weather Forecasting and Climate Monitoring |
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William Prescott, U.S. Geological Survey — Southern California Integrated GPS Network (SCIGN), and related USGS GPS-Based Research |
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Nancy King, U.S. Geological Survey — Bay Area Regional Deformation (BARD) Network |
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Christian Rocken, University Navstar Consortium — Nationwide GPS Array in Japan |
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Neil Westin, National Geodetic Survey (NOAA) — CORS Data Archiving and Access System |
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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) |
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James Zumberg, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory — Worldwide IGS Data Archiving and Communications |
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Ulf Lindqwister and Keith Stark, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory — GPS Operations and Data Handling at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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11:00 |
SITE, NETWORK, AND DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR GPS-BASED REMOTE SENSING OF THE ATMOSPHERE Robert Serafin |
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SPEAKERS |
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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 |
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Richard Anthes, University Consortium for Atmospheric Research — Potential Atmospheric Research Uses of GPS-Based Refractivity Sounding Data |
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Judith Curry, University of Colorado, Boulder — Precipitable Water Vapor Data Requirements for Climate Modeling |
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Michael Bevis, University of Hawaii — Site, Network, and Ancillary Data Requirements for GPS Sensing of Precipitable Water Vapor |
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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 |
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AFTERNOON SESSION |
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1:15 pm |
SITE, NETWORK, AND DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR GPS-BASED REMOTE SENSING OF THE ATMOSPHERE (CONTINUED) E. Ann Berman |
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SPEAKERS |
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Tom Runge, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory — Meteorological and GPS Data Requirements for GPS-Based Sensing of Precipitable Water |
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Frederick Solheim and Chris Alber, University Navstar Consortium — Antenna, Site, and Ancillary Data Requirements for GPS-Based Slant-Path Water Vapor Sensing |
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 |
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Dave Anderson, USAF Phillips Laboratory — Infrastructure Requirements DOD Ionospheric Mapping Research |
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Per Enge and Y.C. Chao, Stanford University — Ionospheric Modeling and Research for the FAA Wide-Area Augmentation System |
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2:15 |
SITE, NETWORK, AND DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR STATIC POSITIONING Thomas Herring |
SPEAKERS |
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Roger Bilham, University of Colorado, Boulder — Reference Site Infrastructure Requirements: Stable Monumentation, Anchors, Inclinometry, Reference Marks |
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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 |
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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 |
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Mike Watkins, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory — Crustal Strain Monitoring Requirements |
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Mark Murray, Stanford University — Crustal Site, Network, and Data Requirements for Volcano Deformation Studies; Stanford University Continuously Operated DGPS Network |
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4:00 |
SITE, NETWORK, AND DATA NEEDS FOR DYNAMIC POSITIONING AND NAVIGATION W. Kenneth Stewart |
SPEAKERS |
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Robin Bell, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Chreston Martin, EG &G — Site, Network, and Data Needs for Airborne Gravimetry, Photogrammetry, And Polar Research |
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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 |
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Kevin Leaman, University of Miami — Infrastructure Requirements for Oceanography |
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Dave Carlson, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Technology Division — Positioning/Navigation Requirements for Aircraft and Sondes Used in Atmospheric Research |
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Tom Yunck, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory — Network and Data Requirements for Satellite Gravimetry, Scientific View of the Wide-Area Augmentation System (WAAS) |
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Paul Montgomery, Stanford University — Autonomous Vehicle Navigation and Control Using GPS |
March 12, 1996
MORNING SESSION |
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8:30 |
WORKING GROUP SESSIONS |
Working Group 1 Augmented GPS Networks, Data Sources, and Static Positioning |
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Working Group 2 Dynamic Positioning/Navigation |