CORS USERS FORUM (Latest update) -- September 6, 2005

September 6, 2005

CORS USERS FORUM (Latest update)

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 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
Charles Schwarz, NOAA's National Geodetic Survey

3:00 - 3:20
Question/Answer Session with the Panel of Speakers

3:20 - 3:35
Break

3:35 - 5:00
Interactive Sessions within Small Discussion Groups

A. Towards real-time CORS products and services
(Facilitators: Charles Schwarz, Miranda Chin, Bruce Sailer)

B. OPUS, UFCORS, and other CORS utilities
(Facilitators: Tom Soler, Dale Pursell, Marti Ikehara)

C. Standards & guidelines for establishing CORS sites
and managing CORS information
(Facilitators: Giovanni Sella, Don Haw, Julie Prusky)

D. Ionospheric and tropospheric models
(Facilitators: Tim Fuller-Rowell and Dru Smith)