From: "James A. Slater" Date: 19 Feb 1999 21:48:03 Subject: [IGEXMail-0218] FIRST CIRCULAR Boundary="0__=NFjHCs1z1zv4BOVmuTP5lc3oeYzWLGsMqs97kWDs6dUQTSbubRwwkxFf" Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-igexmail@ensg.ign.fr Precedence: bulk ****************************************************************************** IGEX Electronic Mail 19-Feb-1999 21:48:03 Message No 0218 ****************************************************************************** Author: "James A. Slater" Subject: FIRST CIRCULAR: IGEX-98 WORKSHOP --0__=NFjHCs1z1zv4BOVmuTP5lc3oeYzWLGsMqs97kWDs6dUQTSbubRwwkxFf Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline First Circular INTERNATIONAL GLONASS EXPERIMENT (IGEX-98) WORKSHOP September 13-14, 1999 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A. The first coordinated international campaign to collect and analyze GLONASS satellite data began on October 19, 1998 and is scheduled to terminate on April 19, 1999. This International GLONASS Experiment (IGEX-98) was jointly sponsored by the International Association of Geodesy --0__=NFjHCs1z1zv4BOVmuTP5lc3oeYzWLGsMqs97kWDs6dUQTSbubRwwkxFf Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable ?s (IAG) Commission VIII for the International Coordination of Space Techniques for Geodesy and Geodynam= ics, the Institute of Navigation?s (ION) GLONASS-GPS Interoperability Working Gr= oup, the International GPS Service (IGS), and the International Earth Rotation S= ervice (IERS). The IGEX-98 Steering Committee, the ION and the IGS are organi= zing a joint workshop on September 13-14, 1999 to discuss the results of IGEX-= 98 and possible plans for the future. This workshop will be held in conjuncti= on with the ION Satellite Division?s 12th International Technical Meeting GPS-9= 9 in Nashville, Tennessee (U.S.). The workshop will be an opportunity for participants to present and com= pare their findings, observations, and analyses resulting from the IGEX camp= aign. It will be a time to assess whether or not the objectives of the experimen= t were met and to discuss future plans for using and supporting GLONASS. Pote= ntial topics for the workshop include: =B7 GLONASS status and plans =B7 IGEX-98 overview, status, participation, geopolitical issues, te= chnical issues =B7 The Russian perspective on GLONASS and IGEX =B7 Data issues -- network operations, station information, data acc= essibility =B7 Lessons learned about tracking, processing and analyzing GLONASS= data and how these compare with GPS =B7 Interoperability of GLONASS and GPS =B7 Orbit determination, evaluation and comparisons (including SLR observations) =B7 Geodetic positioning =B7 Timing =B7 Reference frames and datum transformations =B7 Software developments -- problems and solutions =B7 Receiver technology and performance =B7 Atmospheric and ionospheric studies using ground- and space-base= d receivers =B7 Future directions for a GLONASS tracking network, data products,= and data analyses. The workshop will be a combination of invited papers, oral and poster presentations submitted in response to a Call for Papers, and panel dis= cussions organized around specific issues or topics. Anyone is welcome to atten= d and participate. The IGEX workshop will be run as a separate event prior to the GPS-99 conference. It will be the forum for this year?s meeting of the ION GL= ONASS-GPS Interoperability Working Group (GGIWG). A small registration fee will = be required for all attendees. Workshop attendees who also wish to attend = ION?s GPS-99 Technical Meeting after the workshop ends will be required to pa= y the standard conference registration fee. Nashville is known as Music City, U.S.A. It is the home of countless m= usicians and songwriters, the Grand Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame.= Bluegrass, jazz and other styles of music can also be found in Nashvill= e. Other attractions include a 19th century Southern Plantation (Belle Meade), t= he home of Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the U.S. (Hermitage), and O= pryland Themepark. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Jim Slater, Chair NIMA, U.S.A. E-mail: slaterja@acq.osd.mil Phone: 703-588-7431 Carey Noll, Co-chair NASA GSFC, U.S.A. E-mail: noll@cddis.gsfc.nasa.gov Phone: 301-614-6542 Werner Gurtner, University of Berne, Switzerland (gurtner@aiub.unibe.ch= ) Wlodek Lewandowski, BIPM, France (wlewandowski@bipm.fr) Pratap Misra, M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratories, U.S.A. (misra@ll.mit.edu) Ruth Neilan, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, U.S.A. (ren@cobra.jpl.nasa= .gov) Robert Weber, Technical University of Vienna, Austria (rweber@luna.tuwi= en.ac.at) Pascal Willis, Institut Geographique National, France (pascal.willis@ensg.ign.fr) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Specific information about the workshop including the meeting circulars= , program details and registration procedures will be available on the ION GGIWG = web site under the IGEX heading at http://www.ion.org/workgroup.html and also at= the IGN IGEX web site http://lareg.ensg.ign.fr/IGEX. Information about register= ing for the ION Satellite Division Meeting GPS-99 and general information about= Nashville will be available on the ION web site at http://www.ion.org. Questions can be addressed to the Chair or Co-chair of the Organizing C= ommittee. = --0__=NFjHCs1z1zv4BOVmuTP5lc3oeYzWLGsMqs97kWDs6dUQTSbubRwwkxFf--