Earth on the Edge: Science for a Sustainable Planet: Proceedings of the IAG General Assembly, Melbourne, Australia, June 28 - July 2, 2011

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Generation and Assessment of VMF1-Type Grids Using North-American Numerical Weather Models....Pages 3-9
DORIS Tropospheric Estimation at IGN: Current Strategies, GPS Intercomparisons and Perspectives....Pages 11-18
The Australian Space Research Program Project: Platform Technologies for Space Atmosphere and Climate: Progress and Preliminary Results....Pages 19-25
Simulating GPS Radio Occultation Using 3-D Ray Tracing....Pages 27-30
Near Real Time Estimation of Integrated Water Vapour from GNSS Observations in Hungary....Pages 31-39
Determining the 4D Dynamics of Wet Refractivity Using GPS Tomography in the Australian Region....Pages 41-49
Comparing GPS Radio Occultation Observations with Radiosonde Measurements in the Australian Region....Pages 51-57
Zenith Wet Delay Retrieval Using Two Different Techniques for the South American Region and Their Comparison....Pages 59-64
Uncertainty Considerations for the Comparison of Water Vapour Derived from Radiosondes and GNSS....Pages 65-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Mean Dynamic Ocean Topography in the Southern Ocean from GRACE and GOCE and Multi-mission Altimeter Data....Pages 81-87
A Closed-Loop Simulation on Regional Modelling of Gravity Changes from GRACE....Pages 89-95
Estimation of PGR Induced Absolute Gravity Changes at Greenland GNET Stations....Pages 97-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
New Finite-Element Modelling of Subduction Processes in the Andes Using Realistic Geometries....Pages 105-111
Pumping Induced Pore Pressure Changes in Tilt Measurements Near a Fault Zone in Mizunami, Japan....Pages 113-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Future and Development of the European Combined Geodetic Network ECGN....Pages 121-127
Geocenter Coordinates from GNSS and Combined GNSS-SLR Solutions Using Satellite Co-locations....Pages 129-134
Analysis of the Sea Level Change in New Zealand....Pages 135-139
High Precision Deformation Monitoring at the Geodynamic Observatory Moxa/Thuringia, Germany....Pages 141-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
A Geodetic Study of the Otago Fault System of the South Island of New Zealand....Pages 151-158
Towards an Integrated Model of the Interseismic Velocity Field Along the Western Margin of North America....Pages 159-165
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Land Subsidence, Groundwater Extraction, and Flooding in Bandung Basin (Indonesia)....Pages 167-173
Plate Boundary Deformation Following the December 26, 2004 Andaman–Sumatra Earthquake Revealed by GPS Observations and Seismic Moment Tensors....Pages 175-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
The Construction of ICRF2 and Its Impact on the Terrestrial Reference Frame....Pages 185-188
EUREF’s Contribution to National, European and Global Geodetic Infrastructures....Pages 189-196
External Evaluation of the Terrestrial Reference Frame: Report of the Task Force of the IAG Sub-commission 1.2....Pages 197-202
Atmospheric Effects on VLBI-Derived Terrestrial and Celestial Reference Frames....Pages 203-208
Modelling Deformation in a Kinematic Datum....Pages 209-213
Consistent Adjustment of Combined Terrestrial and Celestial Reference Frames....Pages 215-221
On the Alternative Approaches to ITRF Formulation....Pages 223-229
Spatiotemporal Signal and Noise Analysis of GPS Position Time Series of the Permanent Stations in China....Pages 231-237
GPS + GLONASS CORS Processing: The Asian-Pacific APREF Case....Pages 239-246
Direct VLBI Observations of Global Navigation Satellite System Signals....Pages 247-252
First Geodetic Results from the AuScope VLBI Network....Pages 253-258
Realisation of a Geodetic Datum Using a Gridded Absolute Deformation Model (ADM)....Pages 259-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Computing Scheme of Co-seismic Change of Deflection of the Vertical and Applied in the 2010 Chile Earthquake....Pages 269-274
Satellite Gravity Models and Their Use for Estimating Mean Ocean Circulation....Pages 275-281
The Integral-Equation-Based Approaches for Modelling the Local Gravity Field in the Remove–Restore Scheme....Pages 283-289
Validation of Second-Generation GOCE Gravity Field Models by Astrogeodetic Vertical Deflections in Germany....Pages 291-296
On the Estimate of Accuracy and Reliability of the A10 Absolute Gravimeter free-fall gravimeter ....Pages 297-302
Modelling and Observing the Mw 8.8 Chile 2010 and Mw 9.0 Japan 2011 Earthquakes Using GOCE....Pages 303-310
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Multi-sensor Space Observation of Heavy Flood and Drought Conditions in the Amazon Region....Pages 311-317
Accurate Determination of the Earth Tidal Parameters at the BIPM to Support the Watt Balance Project....Pages 319-324
Towards Constraining Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in Greenland Using ICESat and GPS Observations....Pages 325-331
Determination of High Precision Underground Equipotential Profiles for the Alignment of a Future Linear Collider....Pages 333-339
Reducing the Measurement Time of the Torsion Balance....Pages 341-347
Topographic–Isostatic Reduction of GOCE Gravity Gradients....Pages 349-356
Measurement of Underground Variations in the Deflection of the Vertical with a High Precision Interferometric Deflectometer....Pages 357-363
Analysis of Time Variations of the Gravity Field Over Europe Obtained from GRACE Data in Terms of Geoid Height and Mass Variation....Pages 365-370
Accurate Gravimetry at the BIPM Watt Balance Site....Pages 371-376
Study of the Time Stability of Tides Using a Long Term (1973–2011) Gravity Record at Strasbourg, France....Pages 377-381
Submonthly GRACE Solutions from Localizing Integral Equations and Kalman Filtering....Pages 383-389
The GOCE Estimated Moho Beneath the Tibetan Plateau and Himalaya....Pages 391-397
Validation of GOCE Gravitational Gradients in Satellite Track Cross-Overs....Pages 399-405
Reducing Non-tidal Aliasing Effects by Future Gravity Satellite Formations....Pages 407-412
Preliminary Results from the Superconducting Gravimeter SG-060 Installed in West Africa (Djougou, Benin)....Pages 413-419
Atmospheric Corrections for Superconducting Gravimeters Using Operational Weather Models....Pages 421-427
Micro-Gravity Measurements in Northern Victoria-Land, Antarctica: A Feasibility Study....Pages 429-434
High-Resolution Measurements of Non-Linear Spatial Distribution of Gravity Gradients in Hungary....Pages 435-444
Front Matter....Pages 445-445
Lunar Laser Ranging: Recent Results Based on Refined Modelling....Pages 447-451
Recursive Adjustment Approach for the Estimation of Physical Earth Parameters from Polar Motion....Pages 453-459
Front Matter....Pages 445-445
Atmospheric and Oceanic Excitation of the Free Core Nutation Estimated from Recent Geophysical Models....Pages 461-466
Regional Multi-Fluid-Based Geophysical Excitation of Polar Motion....Pages 467-472
Quantifying the Correlation Between the MEI and LOD Variations by Decomposing LOD with Singular Spectrum Analysis....Pages 473-477
Front Matter....Pages 479-479
Advances of Engineering Geodesy and Artificial Intelligence in Monitoring of Movements and Deformations of Natural and Man-Made Structures....Pages 481-485
Precise Antenna Calibration for Ground-Based Pseudolite....Pages 487-491
Collaborative Positioning in GPS-Challenged Environments....Pages 493-500
Front Matter....Pages 501-501
GNSS Attitude Determination for Remote Sensing: On the Bounding of the Multivariate Ambiguity Objective Function....Pages 503-509
Monitoring Ground Subsidence Using PALSAR and ASAR in Shanghai Downtown Area....Pages 511-518
Front Matter....Pages 519-519
Geoid of Nepal from Airborne Gravity Survey....Pages 521-527
GOCE and the Geoid in South America....Pages 529-534
Derivation of the Topographic Potential from Global DEM Models....Pages 535-542
Strategies for Connecting Imbituba and Santana Brazilian Datums Based on Satellite Gravimetry and Residual Terrain Model....Pages 543-549
Realization of WHS Based on Gravity Field Models Free of Dependencies on Local Vertical Datums....Pages 551-559
Study of Alternatives for Combining Satellite and Terrestrial Gravity Data in Regions with Poor Gravity Information....Pages 561-568
Front Matter....Pages 569-569
Single-Frequency PPP-RTK: Theory and Experimental Results....Pages 571-578
Single Frequency PPP Using Real-Time Regional Broadcast Corrections via NTRIP for the Australian GDA94 Datum....Pages 579-583
Global Assessment of UNB’s Online Precise Point Positioning Software....Pages 585-589
Reliable Integer Ambiguity Resolution....Pages 591-597
Array-Aided CORS Network Ambiguity Resolution....Pages 599-605
A New Newton-Type Iterative Formula for Over-Determined Distance Equations....Pages 607-613
Back Matter....Pages 615-617