Towards an Integrated Global Geodetic Observing System (IGGOS)

Position Papers.- Importance of a Common Framework for the Realization of Space-Time Reference Systems.- The Use of a Precise Reference Frame in Sea Level Change Studies.- Combination of Space Techniques into one Integrated Processing Model.- Towards an Integrated Global Reference System: Geodesy as a Utility.- Space Techniques and their Coordination within IAG at Present and in Future.- Contributions of VLBI to Space Geodesy.- Towards an Integrated Global Geodetic Observing System.- Envisaging a new era of gravity field research.- Status of the CHAMP Mission.- Satellite Gravity Gradiometry with GOCE.- Integration of geodetic techniques into a global Earth monitoring system and its implication for Earth system sciences.- The Integration of Geodetic Measurements into an Earth Science Observing Program: The Example of Glacial Rebound.- Posters - Session A: Reference System and Datum Integration.- Quality Analysis of some IGS Weekly Combined Solutions with Respect to ITRF.- Geosat and ERS-1 Datum Offsets Relative to Topex/Poseidon Estimated Simultaneously with Geopotential Corrections from Multi-Satellite Crossover Altimetry.- The Integration of Brazilian Geodetic Network into SIRGAS - Preliminary Results.- Construction of the New Japan Datum Using Space Geodetic Technologies.- Deviation of Japanese Vertical Datum and Reference Surface with Respect to the Global Geoid.- Reference Systems Used in Global Navigation Satellite Systems.- Recent Contribution to the ITRF and its Realization in Canada.- Realization and Unification of NAD83 in Canada and the U.S. via the ITRF.- Geodetic Datum Definition of the SAGA Network.- Weak Gravitational Lensing and Instability of the Celestial Reference Frame.- Height Time Series of the Italian GPS Fiducial Network compared with VLBIand SLR Estimations.- Monitoring the Continental Reference Frame in South America.- World Geodetic Datum 2000.- Posters - Session B: Strengths and Weaknesses of Space Techniques.- Validation of TOPEX/POSEIDON Measurements in the Southern Baltic Sea.- DORIS: Contribution of an Orbit Determination System to Accurate and Long Term Altimetry from Space.- IGS Combinations of Polar Motion, Length of Day and Universal Time.- Comparison of Site Velocities Measured by VLBI and GPS in the Key Stone Project Network.- Large Lunar Laser Ranging at its Best.- Combining GPS and CCD to Modernise Astronomical Levelling.- Orbit Modelling Based on Laser and CCD-Observations.- Unification of the GPS Work in Egypt.- Earth Orientation Parameters Measured by Space Geodesy Techniques.- New Method for the Selection of Additional Sites for the Homogenisation of an Inhomogeneous Cospherical Point Distribution.- Westford VLBI to GPS Vertical Tie and Implications for the TRF.- Posters - Session C: Upcoming Gravity Field Satellite Missions.- Impact of terrestrial data on future satellite gravity field solutions.- SAGE: An Italian Project of Satellite Accelerometry.- Accelerometry Aboard CHAMP.- Simulation of the GOCE Gravity Field Mission.- Fundamentals and Applications of the Gravity Field Mission GOCE.- Effects of Inhomogeneous Data Coverage on Spectral Analysis.- Geodetic Applications of the ROCSAT-3/COSMIC Mission.- Estimation of Ocean Mass Redistribution by Means of Altimetry and Circulation Models and its Impact on the Gravity Field.- GFZ and DLR Contribution to a GPS Ground Network to Support the CHAMP Mission.- The ESA Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer Mission: Impact on Solid Earth Physics.- Posters - Session D: Implication for Earth Sciences.- The RegularCharacter of the Plate Motion: Implication for Earth Sciences.- About Global Rotation of the Lithosphere.- Least Squares Collocation Method for Space Geodetic Data Analysis.- BIFROST Project: Studies of Variations of Absolute Sea Level in Conjunction with the Postglacial Rebound of Fennoscandia.- The Indonesian Gravity Field and the Geoid Model.- ISRO Initiatives for Space Geodesy and Geodynamics in India.- A Sketch towards an Integrated Global Geodetic Observing System (IGGOS).- Global Integrated Geodetic and Geodynamic Observing System (GIGGOS).- Authors' Index.