Subject: [IGSMAIL-3193]: AGENDA - IGS LEO Pilot Project Meeting, Feb 6-8 2001
From: "Ruth E. Neilan" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked], LEO Pilot Project Contacts:;
Cc: [email-masked] (Katrin Weisse)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:00:43 -0800

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IGS Electronic Mail      30 Jan 12:00:52 PST 2001      Message Number 3193
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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 
([email-masked]) or myself.

best regards,

Ruth

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                        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
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13:00 - 18:00  Registration

Tuesday, February 6
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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
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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
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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
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