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Civil GPS Service Interface Committee
Surveying, Mapping & Geo-Sciences Subcommittee
CORS Users Forum
Long Beach 2004
The Surveying, Mapping & Geo-Sciences (SM&G) Subcommittee of the Civil GPS Service Interface Committee (CGSIC) convened the 4th annual Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) Users Forum on September 21, 2004, during the full CGSIC meeting in Long Beach, California.
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Agenda
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
1:30
Welcome by Moderator
Gordon Adams, NOAA's National Geodetic Survey
1:40
The EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory: An Update Moving Into Project Year 2
Greg Anderson, UNAVCO, Inc.
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(1 MB PDF)
2:00
Design, Construction and Implementation of a Statewide Real-Time Kinematic Network
John Ray, Ohio Department of Transportation
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(6 MB PDF)
2:20
Technical, Operational, and Political Challenges of Building a Regional
Multi-purpose CORS Network Along the Gulf Coast
Roy Dokka, Louisiana Spatial Reference Center
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(6 MB PDF)
2:40
CORS/OPUS: Status and Future Prospects
Richard Snay, NOAA's National Geodetic Survey
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(756 KB PDF)
3:00
Ionosphere Monitoring Using NOAA's CORS Network
Dru Smith, NOAA's National Geodetic Survey
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(2 MB PDF)
3:10 Question/Answer Session with the Panel of Speakers
3:30 Break
3:45 Interactive Sessions within Small Discussion Groups
Session A: Towards Real-Time Positioning moderated by Miranda Chin and Marti Ikehara (both with NOAA's National Geodetic Survey)
Session B: OPUS moderated by Tomas Soler and Rick Foote (both with NOAA's National Geodetic Survey)
Session C: Modeling the Ionosphere and the Troposphere moderated by Seth Gutman (NOAA's Forecast Systems Laboratory), Joe Kunches (NOAA's Space Environment Center), and Dru Smith (NOAA's National Geodetic Survey)
Session D: Computer Friendly CORS moderated by Gordon Adams and Janet Irwin (both with NOAA's National Geodetic Survey)
5:15End of Forum
