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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Presentations to the Committee." National Research Council. 2010. Precise Geodetic Infrastructure: National Requirements for a Shared Resource. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12954.
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Appendix B
Presentations to the Committee

Meeting 1–April 6-8, 2008


Enablers and Infrastructures

Richard Brancato, U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. Naval Observatory Prespective

Kenneth Johnston, U.S. Naval Observatory

NSF Support for Geodetic Infrastructure to Facilitate Earth Sciences Research

Russell Kelz, National Science Foundation

Is Space Geodesy Ready for the Challenges Posed by the NRC Decadal Study?

John LaBrecque, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

FAA WAAS Program Overview

Deborah Lawrence, Federal Aviation Administration

The U.S. Space-Based PNT Current Program and Future Trends

Anthony Russo, National Executive Committee for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing

NGA’s Dependence on Global Geodetic and Geophysical Infrastructure

James Slater, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

National Requirements for Precision Geodetic Infrastructure

Dru Smith, National Geodetic Survey

Meeting 2–June 11-13, 2008


A Mission to Enhance the Terrestrial Reference Frame

Yoaz Bar-Sever, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

SLR and Global Reference Frames over the Next Decade

Ericos Pavlis, University of Maryland

The Use of GNSS for Ionospheric Specification and the Impact of the Ionosphere on GPS

Timothy Fuller-Rowell, University of Colorado

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Presentations to the Committee." National Research Council. 2010. Precise Geodetic Infrastructure: National Requirements for a Shared Resource. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12954.
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The Use of GPS for Earthquake Hazard Response and Research at USGS

Nancy King, U.S. Geological Survey

The Role and Future of VLBI Geodesy

Chopo Ma, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Geodetic Infrastructure and Sea Level Change

R. Steven Nerem, University of Colorado

NGA’s Dependence on Global Geodetic Infrastructure: Emphasis on Gravimetry

Nikolaos Pavlis, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Considerations of a Global Reference System & the U.S. Role

James Ray, National Geodetic Survey

Radio Occultation Observations for Weather, Climate and Ionosphere

Christopher Rocken, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Geodetic Infrastructure and Deep Space Navigation

Bobby Williams, KinetX, Inc.

Meeting 5–June 17-19, 2009


NASA Activities in the Development of a Stable and Accurate ITRF for Climate and Geohazards Research

John LaBrecque, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

USGS Recovery Act Projects

William Leith, U.S. Geological Survey

Summary of Future NGA Requirements for Geodetic and Geophysical Infrastructure and Derivative Data and Products

James Slater, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

National Geodetic Survey and the NRC Geodetic Infrastructure Network

Dru Smith and Neil Weston, National Geodetic Survey

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Presentations to the Committee." National Research Council. 2010. Precise Geodetic Infrastructure: National Requirements for a Shared Resource. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12954.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Presentations to the Committee." National Research Council. 2010. Precise Geodetic Infrastructure: National Requirements for a Shared Resource. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12954.
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Geodesy is the science of accurately measuring and understanding three fundamental properties of Earth: its geometric shape, its orientation in space, and its gravity field, as well as the changes of these properties with time. Over the past half century, the United States, in cooperation with international partners, has led the development of geodetic techniques and instrumentation. Geodetic observing systems provide a significant benefit to society in a wide array of military, research, civil, and commercial areas, including sea level change monitoring, autonomous navigation, tighter low flying routes for strategic aircraft, precision agriculture, civil surveying, earthquake monitoring, forest structural mapping and biomass estimation, and improved floodplain mapping.

Recognizing the growing reliance of a wide range of scientific and societal endeavors on infrastructure for precise geodesy, and recognizing geodetic infrastructure as a shared national resource, this book provides an independent assessment of the benefits provided by geodetic observations and networks, as well as a plan for the future development and support of the infrastructure needed to meet the demand for increasingly greater precision. Precise Geodetic Infrastructure makes a series of focused recommendations for upgrading and improving specific elements of the infrastructure, for enhancing the role of the United States in international geodetic services, for evaluating the requirements for a geodetic workforce for the coming decades, and for providing national coordination and advocacy for the various agencies and organizations that contribute to the geodetic infrastructure.

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