CORS USERS FORUM (UPDATED)

CORS USERS FORUM (UPDATED)

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, 26 September 2006. This
Forum
will be an integral part of the Civil GPS Service Interface Committee (CGSIC)
meeting,
25-26 September 2006, to be held at the Renaissance Worthington Hotel in Fort
Worth, TX.
The Institute of Navigation's GNSS Conference will convene 26-29 September 2006
in
Fort Worth Convention Center.

Attendance at the CGSIC meeting is free, but attendees are asked to register at

        http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/cgsic/meetings/meeting_registration_2006.htm .

The National and Cooperative CORS networks are comprised of numerous subnetworks
operated by more than 180 organizations. Collectively, these networks include
more
than 970 sites--each containing a geodetic quality, dual-frequency GPS
receiver--and
these networks are growing at a rate of about 15 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.

AGENDA

1:30 Welcome and Opening Presentation
        CORS/OPUS: Overview and Status
        Richard Snay, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey

1:45        OPUS-DB and Other OPUS-Related Innovations
        Rick Foote & Joe Evjen, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey

2:05        The Texas Spatial Reference Center
        Gary Jeffress, Texas A&M Univ., Corpus Christi, TX

2:25        On-GRID: An Initiative to Promote Regional Real-Time GNSS Networks
        Gavin Schrock, City of Seattle, WA

2:45        NGS Support for Regional Real-Time GNSS Networks
        Neil Weston, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey

3:05 EarthScope’s Plate Boundary Observatory: Status Update
Greg Anderson, UNAVCO, Inc.

3:25        Question & Answer Session with Panel of the Speakers

3:45        Break

4:00         Interactive Sessions within Small Discussion Groups
        Group A: Real-Time Positioning
                Facilitators: Neil Weston, Giovanni Sella & Bill Henning, NGS
        Group B: OPUS
                Facilitators: Joe Evjen & Rick Foote, NGS
        Group C: Texas Spatial Reference Center
                Facilitators: Cliff Middleton & Rich Snay, NGS
        Group D: Ionospheric Modeling
                Facilitator: Joe Kunches, NOAA’s Space Environment Center
        Group E: Tropospheric Modeling
                Facilitator: Seth Gutman, NOAA’s Earth Systems Research Laboratory
5:00        End of Forum

The program for the full CGSIC meeting is posted at:

http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/cgsic/meetings/summaryrpts/46thMeeting/46th_CGSIC_Agenda.pdf

Information about the ION meeting is posted at:

http://www.ion.org/meetings/#gnss