NEXT CORS USERS FORUM -- 26 September 2006

June 29, 2006

NEXT CORS USERS FORUM

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.

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 920 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.

TENTATIVE 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 Question & Answer Session with Panel of the Speakers

3:25 Break

3:40 Interactive Sessions within Small Discussion Groups

5:00 End of Forum