CORS USERS FORUM (Long Beach, CA)

June 22, 2005

CORS USERS FORUM

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 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 10 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 - 1:40
        Welcome by Moderator
        Richard Snay, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey
1:40 - 2:00
        CORS/OPUS: Status and Future Prospects
        TBD, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey
2:00 - 2:20
        The EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory
        Mike Jackson, UNAVCO, Inc.
2:20 - 2:40
        Post-Processing Versus Real-Time GNSS—Challenging Perspectives for CORS
        Georg Weber, German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy
2:40 - 3:00
        The International GNSS Service --- Progress Towards Real-Time
        Mark Caissy, Natural Resources Canada
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