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The Global Positioning System for the Geosciences: Summary and Proceedings of a Workshop on Improving the GPS Reference Station Infrastructure for Earth, Oceanic, and Atmospheric Science Applications (1997)
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (CETS)

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The Global Positioning System for the Geosciences: Summary and Proceedings of a Workshop on Improving the GPS Reference Station Infrastructure for Earth, Oceanic, and Atmospheric Science Applications

Contents

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WORKSHOP SUMMARY

  
   

 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

  

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1  INTRODUCTION

  

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 Brief Description of the Global Positioning System,

  

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 GPS as a Tool for the Earth, Oceanic, and Atmospheric Sciences,

  

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2  NETWORKS AND DATA SOURCES

  

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 Synopsis of Proceedings,

  

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 Working Group Discussions,

  

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3  REMOTE SENSING OF THE ATMOSPHERE

  

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 Synopsis of Proceedings,

  

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 Working Group Discussions,

  

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4  DYNAMIC POSITIONING AND NAVIGATION

  

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 Synopsis of Proceedings,

  

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 Working Group Discussions,

  

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5  STATIC POSITIONING

  

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 Synopsis of Proceedings,

  

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 Working Group Discussions,

  

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 II

  

WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS

  
   

6  CIVILIAN GPS PLANNING AND POLICY MAKING IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

  
   

 The GPS Information and Policy Organizational Structure
Irene Gonin, George Wiggers, Kenneth Lamm

  

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7  NETWORKS AND DATA SOURCES

  
   

 Federal Aviation Administration GPS Augmentation Systems
Loni Czekalski

  

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 U.S. Coast Guard Differential GPS Navigation Service
Gene Hall

  

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 Bay Area Regional Deformation (BARD) Array
Nancy King and William Prescott

  

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 Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center (SOPAC) and Southern California Precision GPS Geodetic Array (PGGA)
Yehuda Bock, Jeff Behr, Peng Fang, Jeff Dean, Rosemary Leigh

  

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