The Fifth Steering Committee Meeting

The Fifth Steering Committee meeting took place on Wednesday, 5 April, from 8:30 to 11:00 am at the venue of the EGU meeting in Vienna, Austria. Relevant documents were made available here prior to the meeting.

The initial invitation was sent out on March 3, 2006, by e-mail.

Input for Agenda TOP 2:

• An overview of the status of the action items is available as html and pdf. Note that only open AIs are listed.
• Action Item GGOS-SC-4-20: Michael Pearlman together with the WG on Networks and Communication to establish a list of all the products of the services. Responsible: Michael Pearlman, Deadline: 2006-03-31.
  Status report was provided by Carey Noll as follows: See the INDIGO Web page that provides the results of the service assessment; the data and product tables are provided there: http://indigo.nasa.gov/indigo_serva.html.
• Action Item for GEO: Michael Pearlman together with the GGOS WG's on Networks and Communication and Data and Information Systems will develop a list of stations in the separate ground networks. Responsible: Michael Pearlman, Deadline: 2006-03-31.
  Status report was provided by Carey Noll as follows: "(I forwarded this information to Bernd Richter as well for use in the March GEO WG meetings.) Here is a list of URLs that discuss the IAG service networks (i.e., those networks support the IGS, ILRS, IVS, IDS):
  
  • List of ILRS/SLR sites: http://ilrs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stations/sitelist/index.html
  • List of IGS/GNSS sites: http://igscb.jpl.nasa.gov/network/list.html
  • List of IVS/VLBI sites: http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/org/components/ns-list.html
  • List of IDS/DORIS sites: http://ids.cls.fr/html/doris/sitelog.html
  • Lists of correlated sites of all these services (IGS/ILRS/IVS/IDS): http://indigo.nasa.gov/sgp_locations_full_db_site.html
  These links provide progress to date. We have yet to include gravity and tide guagues. We are actively working on expanding the information through INDIGO in both of these areas.
• Action Item GGOS-SC-4-19: Bernd Richter and Bente Lilja Bye together with the Data and Infrastructure WG and the Outreach WG to develop a proposal for the data portal to be discussed at the next SC meeting. Responsible: Bernd Richter, Bente Lilja Bye, Deadline: 2006-03-31:
  Bernd Richter made a proposal for the GGOS Data Portal available: pdf.

Input for Agenda TOP 4:

• Reports from the GGOS WGs:
  • Networks and Communcications Report (pdf)
  • Satellite Missions Report (pdf)
  • User Outreach, draft mission and schedule (pdf)
• Reports from the GGOS representatives to GEO:
  • Representatives to the GEO Science and Technology Committee, Report (pdf)
  • Representatives to the GEO Capacity Building Committee, Report (pdf)
  • Representatives to the WG on Tsunami Activities, Report from the Meeting(pdf)

Agenda TOP 5: Nominations for up to three Members at Large for the Steering Committee:

• Gary Johnston, Geoscience Australia (brief cv, doc)

Agenda TOP 8: ToR for GGOS:

• Hans-Peter Plag has provided a figure illustrating the structure of GGOS; it is available as gif (low quality), pdf, and ps.
• The draft ToR were distributed by e-mail before the SC meeting. They are also available here.

In case of problems, mail to info@iag-ggos.org.