International Symposium on Advancing Geodesy in a Changing World: Proceedings of the IAG Scientific Assembly, Kobe, Japan, July 30 – August 4, 2017

Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 DGFI-TUM Analysis and Scale Investigations of the Latest Terrestrial Reference Frame Realizations  (Mathis Bloßfeld, Detlef Angermann, Manuela Seitz)....Pages 3-9
 Impact of Different ITRS Realizations on VLBI Combined EOP and Scale  (Sabine Bachmann, Daniela Thaller)....Pages 11-17
 Testing Special Relativity with Geodetic VLBI  (Oleg Titov, Hana Krásná)....Pages 19-24
 Development of Wideband Antennas  (H. Ujihara, K. Takefuji, M. Sekido, R. Ichikawa)....Pages 25-28
Front Matter ....Pages 29-29
 Boundary Complexity and Kernel Functions in Classical and Variational Concepts of Solving Geodetic Boundary Value Problems  (Petr Holota, Otakar Nesvadba)....Pages 31-41
 GEOMED2: High-Resolution Geoid of the Mediterranean  (R. Barzaghi, D. Carrion, G. S. Vergos, I. N. Tziavos, V. N. Grigoriadis, D. A. Natsiopoulos et al.)....Pages 43-49
 Evaluation of Altimetry Data in the Baltic Sea Region for Computation of New Quasigeoid Models over Poland  (Joanna Kuczynska-Siehien, Adam Lyszkowicz, Michael G. Sideris)....Pages 51-60
 AFRGDB_V2.0: The Gravity Database for the Geoid Determination in Africa  (Hussein A. Abd-Elmotaal, Kurt Seitz, Norbert Kühtreiber, Bernhard Heck)....Pages 61-70
 Combined Use of a Superconducting Gravimeter and Scintrex Gravimeters for Hydrological Correction of Precise Gravity Measurements: A Superhybrid Gravimetry  (Yuichi Imanishi, Kazunari Nawa, Yoshiaki Tamura, Hiroshi Ikeda, Ryo Honda, Takashi Okuda et al.)....Pages 71-76
 Evaluation of the Global Altimetric Marine Gravity Field DTU15: Using Marine Gravity and GOCE Satellite Gravity  (O. B. Andersen, P. Knudsen, S. Kenyon, S. Holmes, John K. Factor)....Pages 77-81
Front Matter ....Pages 83-83
 Status of Development of the Future Accelerometers for Next Generation Gravity Missions  (B. Christophe, B. Foulon, F. Liorzou, V. Lebat, D. Boulanger, P.-A. Huynh et al.)....Pages 85-89
 On Computation of Potential, Gravity and Gravity Gradient from GRACE Inter-Satellite Ranging Data: A Systematic Study  (K. Ghobadi-Far, S.-C. Han, B. D. Loomis, S. B. Luthcke)....Pages 91-96
 Calibration of GRACE Accelerometers Using Two Types of Reference Accelerations  (Igor Koch, Akbar Shabanloui, Jakob Flury)....Pages 97-104
Front Matter ....Pages 105-105
 PPP Without Troposphere Estimation: Impact Assessment of Regional Versus Global Numerical Weather Models and Delay Parametrization  (Thalia Nikolaidou, Felipe Nievinski, Kyriakos Balidakis, Harald Schuh, Marcelo Santos)....Pages 107-118
 Calibration of Empirical Models of Thermospheric Density Using Satellite Laser Ranging Observations to Near-Earth Orbiting Spherical Satellites  (Sergei Rudenko, Michael Schmidt, Mathis Bloßfeld, Chao Xiong, Hermann Lühr)....Pages 119-127
 Geodetic Remote Sensing of Ionosphere in Relation to Space Weather and Seismic Activity in B&H  (Randa Natras, Medzida Mulic)....Pages 129-141
 Comparing the Nigerian GNSS Reference Network’s Zenith Total Delays from Precise Point Positioning to a Numerical Weather Model  (A. O. Mayaki, T. Nikolaidou, M. Santos, C. J. Okolie)....Pages 143-150
Front Matter ....Pages 151-151
 GGOS Bureau of Products and Standards: Recent Activities and Future Plans  (Detlef Angermann, Thomas Gruber, Michael Gerstl, Robert Heinkelmann, Urs Hugentobler, Laura Sánchez et al.)....Pages 153-159
 Recent Activities of the GGOS Standing Committee on Performance Simulations and Architectural Trade-Offs (PLATO)  (Benjamin Männel, Daniela Thaller, Markus Rothacher, Johannes Böhm, Jürgen Müller, Susanne Glaser et al.)....Pages 161-164
 IGFS Metadata for Gravity. Structure, Build-up and Application Module  (G. S. Vergos, V. N. Grigoriadis, R. Barzaghi, D. Carrion)....Pages 165-171
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 Assessment of GNSS and Map Integration for Lane-Level Applications in the Scope of Intelligent Transportation Location Based Services (ITLBS)  (Emerson Pereira Cavalheri, Marcelo Carvalho dos Santos)....Pages 175-181
 Improving Low-Cost GNSS Navigation in Urban Areas by Integrating a Kinect Device  (C. I. De Gaetani, D. Pagliari, E. Realini, M. Reguzzoni, L. Rossi, L. Pinto)....Pages 183-189
Front Matter ....Pages 191-191
 Crustal Deformation and Fault Models of the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Sequence: Foreshocks and Main Shock  (Tomokazu Kobayashi, Hiroshi Yarai, Satoshi Kawamoto, Yu Morishita, Satoshi Fujiwara, Yohei Hiyama)....Pages 193-200
Back Matter ....Pages 201-206