The GGOS Contribution to GEOSS and an Observing System for Geohazards and Disaster Prevention


A GEO Workshop organized by the Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS)


November 5-6, 2007
Frascati, Italy
A Contribution to the International Geohazards Week


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Workshop Program

Monday, 5 November 2007

09:00 - 10:30Opening Session, Chairs: Volker Liebig and Markus Rothacher
09:00 - 09:10Welcome
09:10 - 09:30Volker Liebig: ESA's plans in Earth observation with a particular view on GMES, Europe's contribution to GEO
09:30 - 09:50Giovanni Bignami: The contribution of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to GGOS
09:50 - 10:10Teresa Fryberger: The Role of GGOS in Earth Observation and Space Exploration
10:10 - 10:30Jose Achache and Giovanni Rum: The Contribution of GGOS to GEOSS: The view from GEO
10:30-11:00Coffee break
11:00 - 15:30Session 1: Observing changes in Earth's shape, rotation and gravity field with an integrated observing system, Chairs: Ruth Neilan and Michael Pearlman
11:00 - 11:30Rothacher, M., Neilan, R., Plag, H.-P.: The Global Geodetic Observing System Observing
11:30 - 12:00Blewitt, G. and Altamimi, Z.: Providing a Stable Reference frame for Observing the Effect of Global Climate Change on Sea Level
12:00 - 12:20Gross, R., Lavalle, D., Blewitt, G., Clarke, P.: Consistency of Earth Rotation, Gravity, and Shape Measurements
12:20 - 12:40Boehm, J., Wresnik, J, Schuh, H., Behrend, D.: Towards a new VLBI system for geodesy and astrometry
12:40 - 13:00Pearlman, M, Noll, C, McGarry, J., Gurtner, W., Pavlis, E.: The International Laser Ranging Service and its support for GGOS and Earth Sciences
13:00 - 13:20Pavlis, E.: Designing a Global Geodetic Network to Support GGOS
13:20-14:40Lunch break
14:40 - 15:00LaBrecque, J.: The Next Generation Geodetic Network
15:00 - 15:30Discussion
15:30-16:00Coffee break
16:00 - 18:00Session 2: Understanding the Earth system: The contribution of GGOS, Chairs: Richard Gross and Susanna Zerbini
16:00 - 16:30Wu, X., Dong, D., Gross, R., Heflin, M., Moore, A., Oyafuso, F., Owen, S.: The seasonal cycle in global mass transport: Combining geodetic observations to get the picture
16:30 - 16:50Schmidt, R., Flechtner, F., Kusche, J.: Detection of the Earth's time-variable gravity field using GRACE
16:50 - 17:10Rohm, W., Bosy, J.: The GPS tropospheric tomography as an GGOS contribution to water vapour distribution studies
17:10 - 17:30Plag, H.-P.: Towards a Future Predictive Non-Linear Terrestrial Reference Frame for Improved Early Detection of Geohazards and Disaster Mitigation
17:30 - 18:00Discussion
18:15-19:30Reception

Tuesday, 6 November 2007

08:30 - 13:00Session 3: GGOS and Geohazards, Chairs: Hans-Peter Plag and Markus Rothacher
08:30 - 09:00Blewitt, G., Kreemer, C., Hammond, W., Plag, H.-P.: Realizing the potential of GGOS for Geohazard Prediction and Early Warning
09:00 - 09:30Donnellan, A.: Earthquakes, volcanoes, land slides: Geodetic contributions and challenges for geodesy
09:30 - 10:00Kosuke Heki: Geodetic contributions to studies of the physics of earthquake
10:00 - 10:20Schoene, T: GGOS Contributions for Early Warning Systems
10:20-10:50Coffee break
10:50 - 11:10Diament, M., Panet, I., Mikhailov, V., deViron, O.: What does satellite gravity bring to the understanding and monitoring of large earthquakes?
11:10 - 11:30Lognonne, P., Occhipinti, G., Kherani, A., Garcia, R., Crespon, F., Jeansou, E., Mimoun, D.: Ionospheric seismology: a new perspective in Earth Observation
11:30 - 11:50Bonaccorso, A., Aloisi, M., Bonforte, A., Gambino, S., Guglielmino, F., Mattia, M., Palano, M., Puglisi, G.: Volcanic hazard reduction at Sicilian volcanoes (South Italy) by integrating satellite and terrestrial geodetic monitoring systems
11:50 - 12:10Papale, P., Longo, A., O'Brien, G., Vassalli, M., Saccorotti, G., Bean, C., Barbato, D., Barsanti, M.: Early warning system at active volcanoes: establishing a link between geodetic observations and deep magma dynamics
12:10 - 13:00Discussion and Workshop Summary