Subject: [IGSMAIL-2213] IGS Analysis Center Workshop
From: Y. Bock & T. Springer
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 15:34:55 PST

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IGS Electronic Mail      Mon Mar 22 15:34:55 PST 1999      Message Number 2213
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Author: Y. Bock & T. Springer
Subject: IGS Analysis Center Workshop

Theme: Real-Time Applications and Long-Term Accuracy 

Dates: Tuesday, June 8 to Thursday, June 11

Place: Hubbs Hall 4500, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA

Conveners: Yehuda Bock (SIO; [email-masked]) & Tim Springer (AIUB; [email-masked])

Local Organizer: Myra Medina, tel (619) 534-0229; fax (619) 534-9873; 
e-mail: [email-masked]. Please let Myra know if you plan to attend.

Accommodations: 
Sea Lodge on La Jolla Shores Beach
8110 Camino Del Oro, La Jolla, CA 92037
Reservations Line:  800-237-5211; fax (619) 456-9346; e-mail: www.sealodge.com
Please reference Scripps IGS-IGPP meeting for a discounted rate.

50 rooms have been reserved for arrival June 7, for 3 nights, departing on June 11.
Rooms will be held until May 7. After that date, we can not guarantee that rooms will be
available. This is the beginning of summer season and the hotel is right on the beach.

Agenda: Will be circulated soon

Registration Fee: To be announced

Main Topics (Draft, will be iterated upon by IGS Analysis Centers). 

(1) Long-term stability and accuracy of GPS Reference Frame
Status of ITRF
Monumentation & Site Stability
Antenna Phase Center Maps
In-situ site calibrations
GPS constellation errors (satellite phase center offsets)
Unmodeled Effects (e.g., tides)
Impact of LEOÕs (geocenter, UT1-UTC)

Position Paper: Achieving mm site positions and mm/yr site velocities for geodynamics

(2) Real- and near-real time products and applications
Rapid and Predicted Orbits
Troposphere
LEOÕs
Impact of third GPS frequency
Active control stations
Need for 1Hz global tracking
Error sources (multipath, tropospheric refraction)

Position Paper: Moving IGS products towards real-time

Other items of business:
(1) Reports on Status of IGS Pilot Projects
Densification
Ionosphere
Low Earth Orbiter (LEO) Missions
Reference Frame
Time Transfer
Troposphere
(2) Report on IGEX Project
(3) Infrastructure Committee Report
(4) Report on 1998 Network Workshop (Annapolis)
(5) Report of 1999 IGS-GFZ-JPL Workshop on Low Earth Orbiter Missions
(6) New Directions for the IGS (Chairman, IGS Governing Board)

Note: An IGS Governing Board meeting will be held at SIOÕs
Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) on 
Monday, June 7.

[Mailed From: [email-masked] (Yehuda Bock)]