Geodesy



Applications of low-cost, mass-market and consumer-grade GNSS in geosciences
Primary Convener:  Balaji Devaraju, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Department of Civil Engineering, Kanpur, India
Conveners:  Tobias Kersten, Leibniz University of Hannover, Institute of Geodesy, Hannover, Germany, Franziska Koch, BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Institute for Hydrology and Water Management, Vienna, Austria, Robert Odolinski, University of Otago, School of Surveying, Dunedin, New Zealand and Jens-Andre Paffenholz, Clausthal University of Technology, Institute of Geo-Engineering, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Balaji Devaraju, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Department of Civil Engineering, Kanpur, India


Continuous Measurements of Earth System Mass Change: GRACE, GRACE Follow-On, and Beyond
Primary Convener:  Felix W Landerer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jeanne M Sauber1, Michael J Croteau1, Ryan A Hardy2 and Nadège Pie3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States(2)NOAA, Boulder, United States(3)Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Felix W Landerer, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States


Geodesy for Climate Research
Primary Convener:  Carmen Boening, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Annette Eicker, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; HafenCity University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Anna Klos, Military University of Technology, Warszawa, Poland, Henryk Dobslaw, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany and Roelof Rietbroek, University of Bonn, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Bonn, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Carmen Boening, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States


Geodetic Measurements of the Earth's Elastic Response to Surface Mass Variability
Primary Convener:  Yuning Fu, Bowling Green State University, School of Earth, Environment and Society, Bowling Green, OH, United States
Conveners:  Yuning Fu, Bowling Green State University, School of Earth, Environment and Society, Bowling Green, OH, United States, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Technical University of Denmark - Space, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, Ingo Sasgen, Alfred-Wegener-Institute Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany and Christopher W Johnson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yuning Fu, Bowling Green State University, School of Earth, Environment and Society, Bowling Green, OH, United States


Global Applications of Geodesy to Volcanic Systems
Primary Convener:  Emily K. Montgomery-Brown, USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, WA, United States
Conveners:  Alessandro Bonforte, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Etna Observatory, Catania, Italy, Joshua Robert Robert Jones, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Kirsten Stephens, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Primary Liaison:  Emily K. Montgomery-Brown, USGS, Volcano Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States


Gravity Field Determination: Acquisition,Processing, and Geodetic Applications ofTerrestrial, Marine, and Airborne Gravity Data
Primary Convener:  Derek van Westrum, NOAA National Geodetic Survey, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Vicki A Childers, NOAA, National Geodetic Survey, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Thomas J Johnson, NGA, Burke, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Derek van Westrum, NOAA National Geodetic Survey, Boulder, CO, United States


Highlights from the SAR Community Supported by ASF's 30-Year Quest for Making SAR Data Accessible
Primary Convener:  Franz Josef Meyer, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Conveners:  Bernd Scheuchl, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Annette L Labelle-Hamer, Univ of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Wade Albright, Alaska Satellite Facility, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Primary Liaison:  Franz Josef Meyer, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States


Hydro-geodesy: Space geodetic applications for hydrology
Primary Convener:  Shimon Wdowinski, Florida International University, Earth & Environment Department, Miami, FL, United States
Conveners:  Adrian A Borsa, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Hilary R Martens, University of Montana, Geosciences, Missoula, MT, United States, Kristine M Larson, University of Hawaii, Manoa, HI, United States and Daniel R Cayan, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Hilary R Martens, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States


ICESat-2 on-orbit performance, data discoveries and science results
Primary Convener:  Lori A Magruder, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Conveners:  Tom Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States and Nathan T Kurtz, NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lori A Magruder, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States


Observational gaps in coastal zones monitoring in terms of natural and human-induced forcing factors, response and evolution
Primary Convener:  Anny A Cazenave, Laboratoire d'Etudes en Geophysique et Oceanographie Spatiale, Observatoire Midi Pyrénées, LEGOS-CNES-CNRS-IRD-UPS, Toulouse, France
Conveners:  Goneri Le Cozannet, BRGM, Orléans, France and Jérôme Benveniste, European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN), Earth Observation Programmes, Frascati, Italy
Primary Liaison:  Anny A Cazenave, Laboratoire d'Etudes en Geophysique et Oceanographie Spatiale, Observatoire Midi Pyrénées, LEGOS-CNES-CNRS-IRD-UPS, Toulouse, France


Plate Motion, Continental Deformation, and Interseismic Strain Accumulation
Primary Convener:  Donald F Argus, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jeffrey Todd Freymueller, Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, D. Sarah Stamps, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States and Rui Manuel Silva Fernandes, University of Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal
Primary Liaison:  Donald F Argus, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States


Recent Advances in SAR and InSAR Data Processing, Big Data Analysis and Earth Science Applications
Primary Convener:  Eric Ostrom Lindsey, University of New Mexico, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Conveners:  Jingyi Chen, University of Texas at Austin, Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Austin, TX, United States, Kristy French Tiampo, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and David P Bekaert, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Eric Ostrom Lindsey, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States


Reference Frames: Determination, Usage, and Application
Primary Convener:  Zuheir Altamimi, IGN Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière, Paris Cedex 13, France
Conveners:  Frank G Lemoine, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Jake Griffiths, Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jake Griffiths, Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States


Remote sensing of shallow-water bathymetry: new methods and new science
Primary Convener:  Adrian A Borsa, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Conveners:  Lori A Magruder, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Gretchen Imahori, National Geodetic Survey, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Adrian A Borsa, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States


Surface deformation linked to fluid injection and extraction activities: from geodetic observations to integrated geophysical analyses
Primary Convener:  Guoyan Jiang, School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Conveners:  Andrew J Barbour, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Yosuke Aoki, Univ Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan, Fanghui Deng, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Rob Govers, Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  Guoyan Jiang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China


The Global Geodetic Observing System: Geodesy for Science and Society
Primary Convener:  Kosuke Heki, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Conveners:  Martin Sehnal, BEV Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying, Vienna, Austria, Laura Sanchez, Technical University of Munich, DGFI, Munich, Germany and Allison B Craddock, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kosuke Heki, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan


Understanding the Monsoon phenomenon through geodetic and other earth observation data
Primary Convener:  Balaji Devaraju, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Department of Civil Engineering, Kanpur, India
Conveners:  Shivam Tripathi, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Department of Civil Engineering, Kanpur, India, Susanna Werth, Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Karim Douch, University of Stuttgart, Institute of Geodesy, Stuttgart, Germany and Peng Yuan, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Geodetic Institute, Karlsruhe, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Balaji Devaraju, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Department of Civil Engineering, Kanpur, India