Message-Id: Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:00:43 -0800 To: igsmail@igscb.jpl.nasa.gov, LEO Pilot Project Contacts:; From: "Ruth E. Neilan" Subject: [IGSMAIL-3193]: AGENDA - IGS LEO Pilot Project Meeting, Feb 6-8 2001 Cc: weisse@gfz-potsdam.de (Katrin Weisse) Sender: owner-igsmail Precedence: bulk ****************************************************************************** IGS Electronic Mail 30 Jan 12:00:52 PST 2001 Message Number 3193 ****************************************************************************** Author: Ruth Neilan, IGSCB Dear colleagues, The agenda for the LEO Pilot Project Meetings in Potsdam next week has been posted to the GFZ web site today. It is included below for your reference. The current list of participants is also noted below. Apologies if you receive this message more than once in an effort to distribute this more quickly. If you have any questions, please contact Katrin Weisse (weisse@gfz-potsdam.de) or myself. best regards, Ruth =============================================================================== IGS LEO PILOT PROJECT MEETING February 5-8, 2001 Low Earth orbiter Missions: Status of CHAMP Mission Prospect of SAC-C and Future Missions (GRACE,...} Ground and Space GPS Observations Ad-Hoc Meeting for IGS Real-Time Working Group Formation GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam Germany http://op.gfz-potsdam.de/D1/LEOW/LEOW_index.html Organizers: Ch. Reigber (GFZ), R. Neilan (IGSCB/JPL), M. Watkins (JPL) Meeting Sponsors International GPS Service (IGS) GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ) Meeting Organization: Prof. Dr. Christoph Reigber, GFZ Potsdam, Chair IGS Governing Board and CHAMP Project Director Ms. Ruth Neilan, IGS Central Bureau, JPL Pasadena Director, IGS Central Bureau Dr. Michael Watkins, JPL Pasadena Chair IGS Working Group on Low Earth Orbiters Additional Low Earth Orbiter Working Group Members: Dr. John Dow, ESA/ESOC Darmstadt Dr. Chris Rocken, GPST, UCAR Boulder Prof. Markus Rothacher, TU Munich Prof. Bob Schutz, CSR UT Austin Dr. Tom Yunck, JPL Pasadena Local Organization provided by GFZ Potsdam: Katrin Weisse Dr. Peter Offermann Angelika Svarovsky Agenda Monday, February 5 ____________________________ 13:00 - 18:00 Registration Tuesday, February 6 ____________________________ 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 Overview and Introduction (Ch. Reigber, GFZ / M. Watkins, JPL) IGS Pilot Project - Status of LEO CfP, Meeting Goals CHAMP Focus 9:30 - 12:30 CHAMP Status and Developments (GFZ) (~20 minutes each includes discussion) - Satellite bus & subsystems (Bock) - Science instruments (Grunwaldt/Bock) - Ground segment & data flow (Massmann/Schwintzer) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 13:00 CHAMP Status - Data processors & products - CHAMP Orbit & Gravity (R. König, GFZ) - Magnetics (Lühr) - Occultations (Wickert) - Data archive & distribution (Ritschel) - Next major events (Reigber) 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch LEO Missions Status & Plans 14:00 - 15:45 LEO Mission presentations and discussions (~20 Minutes each includes discussion) - JPL's BlackJack Flight GPS Receiver on CHAMP and SAC-C (T P Yunck, JPL) - Availability of SAC-C Flight Data (J F Zumberge, JPL) - Status of GRACE Mission (B. Tapley, CSR, Ch. Reigber, GFZ) - Status of COSMIC project (C. Rocken, B. Kuo, D. Hunt, B. Schreiner, S.Sokolovskiy, UCAR) 15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break 16:15 - 18:00 Flight GPS Analysis Results (~20 Minutes each includes discussion) - GFZ's orbit generation for CHAMP (König, Neumayer, GFZ - JPL's CHAMP POD process (R. Muellerschoen, JPL) - Analysis of CHAMP and TOPEX GPS data (F. Mercier, S. Gratton, CNES) - LEO Activities at AIUB (H. Bock, U. Hugentobler, G. Beutler, AIUB) - GPS LEO activities at ESOC (C. Garcia, J. Dow, ESOC) 18:00 Ice breaker party Wednesday February 7 ____________________________ Note: Included below are proposed contributions submitted with the original registration form to GFZ, contributions and introductions from the pilot project participants have been solicited and will be included during the discussions. 9:00 IGS LEO Project Organizational Meeting - Overview (M. Watkins, JPL) - Approval of meeting agenda - Summary of LEO CFP Responses (M. Watkins, JPL, R. Neilan IGS CB/JPL) 9:30 - 10:45 Analysis Issues: IGS LEO Analysis Contributions, Introductions and Approaches (~5-10 min summaries) - JPL's IGS AC as in LEO Proposal (F. Webb, JPL) - IGS AAC activities in LEO pilot project (R. Muellerschoen, JPL) - GFZ’s AAC contributions to the IGS LEO pilot project (König) Other analysis introductions and reports 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break 11:15 - 13:00 LEO Project Organization Discussion Mission Goals and objectives Structure - responsible people for the various components Interfaces with LEO missions Identify Critical issues, analysis requirements, data access, formats, etc. Requirements Proposed Schedule 13:00-14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 17:30 Infrastructure Organization - Response to Project Formation 14:00 - 14:45 Network and Stations Roles and Issues (~5-10 min each) - JPL's LEO support ground network (D. Stowers, JPL) - CHAMP support GPS ground network of GFZ (C. Reigber, GFZ) - Proposed LEO activities at the Geodetic Observatory Pecny, Czech Republic (J. Simek, et al., Pecny Obs.) - Ohio State University IGS LEO Pilot Project: Status and Plans for the Great Lakes GPS Network (C.K. Shum, OSU) Other stations introductions and reports 14:45 - 15:30 FORMATS Discussion (W. Gurtner, AIUB) - RINEX Extensions for LEO GPS Data (W. Gurtner, AIUB) - Binary exchange format for GPS highrate data (W. Köhler, GFZ) Other format issues for LEO PP 15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break 16:15 -16:45 Data Centers (5-10 min) - CDDIS data center support of LEO missions (C. Noll, GSFC) - GFZ’s CHAMP data archive and data distribution (B. Ritschel, C. Förste, GFZ) - GENESIS Update (T. Yunck, JPL) Other DC introductions and reports 16:45 - 17:30 Project Infrastructure Discussions - Network configuration, POD and high rate stations for occultation - Data Flow - Data management, data center structures and access - Data Exchange: Formats, flight and ground receiver data - Schedule Thursday February 8 ____________________________ 9:00 - 12:00 LEO Project Planning Discussions - Remaining Issues, continuation from Wednesday 11:30 - 13:00 Summary Session, Plans Actions to be taken Next meeting 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 IGS Real-Time Working Group - Ad Hoc Session (Coffee Break @ ~15:30) - Summary of Discussions on Real-time from IGS Strategic Plan; Actions taken at IGS GB meeting December 2000 (R. Neilan) Review draft charter Consensus to proceed Establishment of WG Real-time formats, Establishing an IGS standard (W. Gurtner, A. Moore) Discussion of current formats Real-time vs. long term archive of IGS data Implementation Issues - clarification Current Utilization of Real Time Networks WG leadership and membership Next actions 17:00 Close Participants (as of Jan 30, 2001) 1. Gerald Baustert, GFZ, Germany 2. Georg Beyerle, GFZ, Germany 3. Heike Bock, AIUB, Switzerland 4. Ralf Bock, GFZ, Germany 5. Mark Caissy, NRC, Canada 6. Alessandro Caporali, University of Padova, Italy 7. Stefano Casotto, University of Padova, Italy 8. John Dow, ESA/ESOC, Germany 9. Louis Duquesne, CNES, France 10. Lou Estey, UNAVCO/UCAR, USA 11. Kevin Fleming, GFZ, Germany 12. Christoph Förste, GFZ, Germany 13. Roman Galas, GFZ, Germany 14. Carlos Garcia, ESOC, Germany 15. Gerd Gendt, GFZ, Germany 16. Gianluca Graglia, Alenia Spazio, Roma, Italy 17. Serge Gratton, CNES, France 18. Ludwig Grunwaldt, GFZ, Germany 19. Werner Gurtner, AIUB, Switzerland 20. Phillip Hartl, Germany 21. Stefan Heise, DLR, Germany 22. Urs Hugentobler, AIUB, Switzerland 23. Norbert Jakowski, DLR, Germany 24. Klaus-Peter Johnsen, GKSS, Germany 25. Zhigui Kang, CSR, USA 26. Rolf König, GFZ, Germany 27. Jakub Kostelecky, Pecny Obs., Czech Republic 28. Jan Kostelecky, Prague Techn. Univ., Czech Republic 29. Gerhard Kruizinga, JPL, USA 30. Hermann Lühr, GFZ, Germany 31. Finn Bo Madsen, KMS, Denmark 32. Christian Marquardt, GFZ, Germany 33. Franz-Heinrich Massmann, GFZ, Germany 34. Charles Meertens, UNAVCO/UCAR, USA 35. Bill Melbourne, GFZ/JPL, Germany/USA 36. Flavian Mercier, CNES, France 37. Angelyn W. Moore, JPL, USA 38. Ron Muellerschoen, JPL, USA 39. Antonio Nardi, Telespazio, Roma, Italy 40. Ruth E. Neilan, JPL, USA 41. Roland Neuber, AWI, Germany 42. Karl-Hans Neumayer, GFZ, Germany 43. Jürgen Neumeyer, GFZ, Germany 44. Carey Noll, GSFC, USA 45. Markus Ramatschi, GFZ, Germany 46. Christoph Reigber, GFZ, Germany 47. Hyung-Jin Rim, CSR, USA 48. Bernd Ritschel, GFZ, Germany 49. Chris Rocken, UNAVCO/UCAR, USA 50. Uwe Schäfer, BKG, Germany 51. Torsten Schmidt, GFZ, Germany 52. Bob Schutz, CSR, USA 53. Volker Schwieger, GFZ, Germany 54. Peter Schwintzer, GFZ, Germany 55. C.K. Shum, OSU, USA 56. Jaroslav Simek, Pecny Obs., Czech Republic 57. Dave Stowers, JPL, USA 58. Francesco Vespe, ASI, Italy 59. Pieter Visser, TU Delft, Netherlands 60. Frank Webb, JPL, USA 61. Andreas Wehrenpfennig, DLR, Germany 62. Jens Wickert, GFZ, Germany 63. Roger Wood, NERC, UK 64. Thomas Yunck, JPL, USA 65. James F. Zumberge, JPL, USA -- ============================================================================ Ruth E. Neilan Telephone: (818)-354-8330 Director, IGS Central Bureau FAX: (818)-393-6686 Jet Propulsion Laboratory E-mail (IGS): igscb@igscb.jpl.nasa.gov MS 238-540 E-mail: ruth.neilan@jpl.nasa.gov 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA 91109 IGS CBIS: http://igscb.jpl.nasa.gov/ Secretary: Mary Ann Hall, tel: 818-354-2077, Mary Ann.C.Hall@jpl.nasa.gov ============================================================================