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J Geod (2012) 86:475–476DOI 10.1007/s00190-012-0570-7
IAG NEWSLETTER
IAG Newsletter
Gyula Tóth
© Springer-Verlag 2012
The IAG Newsletter is under the editorial responsibility of theCommunication and Outreach Branch (COB) of the IAG. Itis an open forum and contributors are welcome to send mate-rial (preferably in electronic form) to the IAG COB ([email protected]). These contributions should complementinformation sent by IAG officials or by IAG symposia orga-nizers (reports and announcements). The IAG Newsletter ispublished monthly. It is available in different formats fromthe IAG new internet site: http://www.iag-aig.org.
Each IAG Newsletter includes several of the followingtopics:
I. general informationII. reports of IAG symposiaIII. reports by commissions, special commissions or study
groupsIV. symposia announcementsV. book reviewsVI. fast bibliography
Books for review are the responsibility of:C. C. Tscherning,University of Copenhagen,Department of Geophysics,Copenhagen, Denmark,Fax: +45-35365357,E-mail: [email protected]
G. Tóth (B)IAG Communication and Outreach Branch,MTA-BME Research Group for Physical Geodesyand Geodynamics, Department of Geodesy and Surveying,Budapest University of Technology and Economics,1521 Budapest, Hungarye-mail: [email protected]: http://www.iag-aig.org/
General Announcements
News Release: Ivan I. Mueller Award for DistinguishedService and Leadership
The Honors and Recognition Committee of the AmericanGeophysical Union (AGU) approved the establishment of the“Ivan I. Mueller Award for Distinguished Service and Lead-ership.” The Award is to recognize Mueller’s major contri-bution to international programs that advanced geodesy overthe past half-century.
The AGU, established in 1919, has more than 60,000members from 148 countries. The Union is dedicated tothe furtherance of the geophysical sciences through the indi-vidual efforts of its members and in cooperation with othernational and international scientific organizations.
Ivan I. Mueller is Professor and Chair Emeritus in theDivision of Geodetic Science, School of Earth Sciences atThe Ohio State University. He is Past President of both theInternational Association of Geodesy and the AGU GeodesySection.
The goal of the Award is to acknowledge major achieve-ments in service to and/or leadership within the field ofgeodesy performed by an individual who is a memberof the AGU, who has primary or secondary membership inthe Geodesy Section, and whose body of work enhances thevisibility of geodesy within AGU and within the interna-tional associated bodies. This Award encompasses all areasof geodesy, including exceptional performance in fieldwork,the development and maintenance of major software sys-tems, the leadership of scientific initiatives, education andpublic outreach, and a variety of other service and lead-ership achievements. Its purpose is to recognize achieve-ments in the field of geodesy beyond scientific and researchcontributions.
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The deadline for nominations for the first “Ivan I. Muel-ler Award for Distinguished Service and Leadership” will beMarch 15, 2013 and the first presentation will be in December2013.
IAG COB
ILRS News
The ILRS tracking network is becoming increasingly invol-ved in making laser range measurements to satellites of theemerging Global Navigation Satellite Systems. The veryrecent agreement of the Governing Board to support threenew satellites of the Chinese COMPASS navigation system,a developing constellation that includes satellites in tradi-tional 20,000 km orbits as well as in geosynchronous orbits,brings to 15 the numbers tracked. Of those 15 vehicles, 6are from the Russian GLONASS system, which is now fullypopulated and operational, and four are from the new EUGalileo system. In recent years, new ILRS recommendations
on minimum standards for the design of retro-reflectors haveled to range observations to the existing COMPASS-M1,newer GLONASS satellites and the recent two Galileo vehi-cles being carried out routinely by day and by night.
Laser ranging to the GNSS satellites will link thosesatellite orbits to the geocentric reference frame that is deter-mined from laser tracking of the dedicated geodetic satel-lites, and thus enable the GNSS constellations to distribute avery precise reference frame to users worldwide. Laser rangeobservations also provide an important independent check onequivalent ranges determined from analyses of the naviga-tional signals, and thus act as a measure of orbital quality andpotential systematic effects. An ILRS technical workshop todiscuss these issues is being planned for late 2012 in Frascati,Italy.
Graham Appleby, Chair, ILRS Governing BoardMike Pearlman, Director, ILRS Central Bureau
Carey Noll, Secretary, ILRS Central Bureau
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