Geodesy Beyond 2000: The Challenges of the First Decade IAG General Assembly Birmingham, July 19–30, 1999

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Earth scale below a part per billion from Satellite Laser Ranging....Pages 3-12
Long-term stability of altimetric data with applications to mean sea-level change....Pages 13-19
CORE: Continuous, high accuracy Earth orientation measurements for the new millennium....Pages 20-21
The IGEX-98- campaign: Highlights and perspective....Pages 22-25
Computation of precise GLONASS orbits for IGEX-98....Pages 26-31
Ocean loading tides in GPS and rapid variations of the frame origin....Pages 32-40
Use of GPS carrier phase for high precision frequency (time) comparison....Pages 41-46
The European Reference System coming of age....Pages 47-54
Status and development of the European height systems....Pages 55-60
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Recovering the global gravitational field from satellite measurements of the full gravity gradient....Pages 63-67
Data analysis for the GOCE mission....Pages 68-74
Direct and local comparison between different ssatellite mission for the gravity field on-the-fly....Pages 75-82
Calibration/validation methods for GRACE....Pages 83-88
The 1999 GFZ pre-CHAMP high resolution gravity model....Pages 89-95
Comparison and evaluation of the new Russian global geopotential model to degree 360....Pages 96-100
Assessing the global land one-km base elsevation DEM....Pages 101-106
Recent advances in the acquisition and use of terrain data for geoid modelling over the United States....Pages 107-111
Geoid modelling in coastal regions using airborne and satellite data: Case study in the Azores....Pages 112-117
Airborne gravity field surveying for oceanography, geology and geodesy — the experiences from AGMASCO....Pages 118-123
A comparison of stable platform and strapdown airborne gravity....Pages 124-124
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
The NRL airborne geophysics program....Pages 125-130
On the modeling of long wavelength systematic errors in surface gravimetric data....Pages 131-136
Investigation of different methods for the combination of gravity and GPS/levelling data....Pages 137-142
The regional geopotential model to degree and order 720 in China....Pages 143-148
Gravity field and geoid for Japan....Pages 149-154
The dual sphere superconducting gravimeter GWR CD029 at Frankfurt a.M. and Wettzell — first results and calibration....Pages 155-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Direct methods in physical geodesy....Pages 163-170
A general least-squares solution of the geodetic boundary value problem....Pages 171-178
On an O(N) algorithm for the solution of geodetic boundary value problems....Pages 179-185
The multigrid method for satellite gravity field recovery....Pages 186-190
Numerical realization of a new iteration procedure for the recovery of potential coefficients....Pages 191-195
Improved analytical approximations of the Earth’s gravitational field....Pages 196-201
Sparse preconditioners of Gram’s matrices in the conjugate gradient method....Pages 202-207
A wavelet approach to non-stationary collocation....Pages 208-213
Wavelets and collocation: An interesting similarity....Pages 214-220
On the wavelet determination of scale exponents in energy spectra and structure functions and their application to CCD camera data....Pages 221-226
The use of wavelets for the analysis and de-noising of kinematic geodetic measurements....Pages 227-232
A theorem of insensitivity of the collocation solution to variations of the metric of the interpolation space....Pages 233-240
Biases and accuracy of, and an alternative to discrete nonlinear filters....Pages 241-242
Are GPS data normally distributed....Pages 243-248
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
On the precision and reliability of near real-time GPS phase observation ambiguities....Pages 249-254
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
Degree-one deformations of the Earth....Pages 257-261
Geodynamics from the analysis of the mean orbital motion of geodetic satellites....Pages 262-270
Geodynamics of S.E. Asia: First results of the Sulawesi 1998 GPS campaign....Pages 271-277
Four-dimensional geodesy: time dependent inversion for earthquake and volcanic sources....Pages 278-278
An interdisciplinary approach to studying seismic hazard throughout Greece....Pages 279-284
Crustal deformation monitoring of volcanoes in Japan using L-band SAR interferometry....Pages 285-288
The sea surface of the Baltic — a result from the Baltic Sea Level Project (IAG SSC 8.1)....Pages 289-294
Preliminary study of block rotation model in North China area using GPS measurements....Pages 295-303
Realization of a terrestrial reference frame for large-scale GPS networks....Pages 304-309
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
Building structures as kinematic systems — dynamic monitoring and system analysis....Pages 313-318
Mobile multi-sensor systems: The new trend in mapping and GIS applications....Pages 319-324
Adaptive Kalman filtering for integration of GPS with GLONASS and INS....Pages 325-330
A GPS/INS/imaging system for kinematic mapping in fully digital mode....Pages 331-336
GPS-based attitude determination for airborne remote sensing....Pages 337-342
Absolute kinematic GPS positioning using satellite clock estimation every 1 second....Pages 343-348
GNSS long baseline ambiguity resolution: Impact of a third navigation frequency....Pages 349-354
Monitoring the height deflections of the Humber Bridge by GPS, GLONASS, and finite element modelling....Pages 355-360
Continuously operating GPS-based volcano deformation monitoring in Indonesia: the technical and logistical challenges....Pages 361-366
A national network of continuously operating GPS receivers for the UK....Pages 367-372
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
The impact of the atmosphere and other systematic errors on permanent GPS networks....Pages 373-380
Re-weighting of GPS baselines for vertical deformation analysis....Pages 381-386
Stochastic modelling of the ionosphere for fast GPS ambiguity resolution....Pages 387-392
Mitigating multipath errors using semi-parametric models for high precision static positioning....Pages 393-398
Geotechnical exploration — wider fields of activities for geodesists and geophysicists....Pages 399-403
Front Matter....Pages 405-405
An analysis of the current IAG structure and some thoughts on an IAG focus....Pages 407-414
The pros and cons of having sections in IAG....Pages 415-418
IAG services in the current framework of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG)....Pages 419-423
The role of IAG Special Study Groups....Pages 424-427
Scientific services in support of research in geoidosy and geodynamics....Pages 428-429
Reflections on a new structure for IAG Beyond 2000 — conclusions from the IAG Section II Symposium in Munich....Pages 430-437
Back Matter....Pages 439-445