************************************************************************ IERS Message No. 336 July 21, 2017 ************************************************************************ GGOS Session at AGU 2017 Dear Colleagues - As part of the 2017 Fall Meeting of the AGU that will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana during 11-15 December 2017 there will be a session on "The Global Geodetic Observing System: Unified Analysis". The description of the session is given below. On behalf if the conveners I would like to draw your attention to this session and encourage you to participate in it. More information about the 2017 Fall Meeting can be obtained from its web site at . Please note that abstracts must be submitted to AGU by August 2, 2017. Submitting by July 26, 2017 gives you a chance to win a $100 gift card! Hope to see you in New Orleans! Best regards, Richard Gross Session ID# 23854: The Global Geodetic Observing System: Unified Analysis The IAG's Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) provides the means for integrating ground- and spaced-based geodetic and gravimetric observations. Modernizing the existing geodetic and gravimetric infrastructure and homogenizing the processing of data are essential for consistent observations of Earth's time-variable shape, rotation, and gravity. This session is a forum for discussing ongoing and planned improvements to the geodetic and gravimetric observing systems and for using the observations from those systems to improve our understanding of the dynamic Earth. Contributions on the progress and plans for building next generation geodetic and gravimetric stations are solicited. Contributions on analyzing observations from the new and legacy stations to improve products such as Earth orientation parameters and reference frames are particularly welcome. Conveners: Richard Gross Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA richard.gross [at] jpl.nasa.gov Tom Herring Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA tah [at] mit.edu Matthias Madzak Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying, Vienna, Austria Matthias.Madzak [at] bev.gv.at Mike Pearlman Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA mpearlman [at] cfa.harvard.edu ************************************************************************ IERS Messages are edited and distributed by the IERS Central Bureau. If not stated otherwise, the IERS is only the distributor of the message and is not responsible for its content. To submit texts for distribution and to subscribe or unsubscribe, please write to . Archives: http://www.iers.org/Messages/ ************************************************************************