12-13 September 2005 CORS USERS FORUM (Updated)

August 10, 2005

CORS USERS FORUM (Updated)

Theme: Towards Real-Time Positioning

NOAA's National Geodetic Survey (NGS)--in cooperation with the U.S. Department
of Transportation and the U.S. Coast Guard--is organizing a CORS (Continuously
Operating Reference Station) Users Forum for Tuesday afternoon, 13 September
2005.
This Forum will be an integral part of the Civil GPS Service Interface Committee
(CGSIC) meeting, 12-13 September 2005, to be held at the Renaissance Hotel
(across the street from the Convention Center) in Long Beach, CA. The Institute
of Navigation's GNSS Conference will convene 13-16 September 2005 in Long Beach.

The National and Cooperative CORS networks are comprised of numerous subnetworks
operated by more than 155 organizations. Collectively, these networks include
more
than 1000 sites--each containing a geodetic quality, dual-frequency GPS
receiver--
and these networks are growing at a rate of about 12 sites per month. NGS and its
partners collect, process, and distribute data from the CORS sites on a
continuous
basis in support of numerous activities including land surveying, navigation,
GIS/LIS development, remote sensing, weather forecasting, satellite tracking,
geophysics, and time transfer.

TENTATIVE AGENDA

1:30 - 1:45
CORS/OPUS: Overview and Status
Richard Snay, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey
1:45 - 2:05
EarthScope’s Plate Boundary Observatory
Greg Anderson, UNAVCO, Inc.
2:05 - 2:25
Post-Processing Versus Real-Time GNSS—Challenging Perspectives for
CORS
         Georg Weber, German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy
2:25 - 2:45
The International GNSS Service --- Progress Towards Real-Time
         Mark Caissy, Natural Resources Canada
2:45 - 3:00
CORS/OPUS: Future Prospects
TBD, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey
3:00 - 3:20
Question/Answer Session with the Panel of Speakers
3:20 - 3:45
Break
3:45 - 5:00

Interactive Sessions within Small Discussion Groups

A. Towards real-time CORS products and services
B. OPUS, UFCORS, and other CORS utilities
C. Standards & guidelines for establishing CORS sites
and managing CORS information
D. Ionospheric and tropospheric models