Earth on the Edge: Science for a Sustainable Planet: Proceedings of the IAG General Assembly, Melbourne, Australia, June 28 - July 2, 2011 (International Association of Geodesy Symposia Book 139)

This book series is composed of peer-reviewed proceedings of selected symposia organized by the International Association of Geodesy. It deals primarily with topics related to Geodesy Earth Sciences : terrestrial reference frame, Earth gravity field, Geodynamics and Earth rotation, Positioning and engineering applications. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Generation and Assessment of VMF1-Type Grids Using North-American Numerical Weather Models....Pages 3-9 DORIS Tropospheric Estimation at IGN: Current Strategies, GPS Intercomparisons and Perspectives....Pages 11-18 The Australian Space Research Program Project: Platform Technologies for Space Atmosphere and Climate: Progress and Preliminary Results....Pages 19-25 Simulating GPS Radio Occultation Using 3-D Ray Tracing....Pages 27-30 Near Real Time Estimation of Integrated Water Vapour from GNSS Observations in Hungary....Pages 31-39 Determining the 4D Dynamics of Wet Refractivity Using GPS Tomography in the Australian Region....Pages 41-49 Comparing GPS Radio Occultation Observations with Radiosonde Measurements in the Australian Region....Pages 51-57 Zenith Wet Delay Retrieval Using Two Different Techniques for the South American Region and Their Comparison....Pages 59-64 Uncertainty Considerations for the Comparison of Water Vapour Derived from Radiosondes and GNSS....Pages 65-78 Front Matter....Pages 79-79 Mean Dynamic Ocean Topography in the Southern Ocean from GRACE and GOCE and Multi-mission Altimeter Data....Pages 81-87 A Closed-Loop Simulation on Regional Modelling of Gravity Changes from GRACE....Pages 89-95 Estimation of PGR Induced Absolute Gravity Changes at Greenland GNET Stations....Pages 97-102 Front Matter....Pages 103-103 New Finite-Element Modelling of Subduction Processes in the Andes Using Realistic Geometries....Pages 105-111 Pumping Induced Pore Pressure Changes in Tilt Measurements Near a Fault Zone in Mizunami, Japan....Pages 113-118 Front Matter....Pages 119-119 Future and Development of the European Combined Geodetic Network ECGN....Pages 121-127 Geocenter Coordinates from GNSS and Combined GNSS-SLR Solutions Using Satellite Co-locations....Pages 129-134 Analysis of the Sea Level Change in New Zealand....Pages 135-139 High Precision Deformation Monitoring at the Geodynamic Observatory Moxa/Thuringia, Germany....Pages 141-147 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 A Geodetic Study of the Otago Fault System of the South Island of New Zealand....Pages 151-158 Towards an Integrated Model of the Interseismic Velocity Field Along the Western Margin of North America....Pages 159-165 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 Land Subsidence, Groundwater Extraction, and Flooding in Bandung Basin (Indonesia)....Pages 167-173 Plate Boundary Deformation Following the December 26, 2004 Andaman–Sumatra Earthquake Revealed by GPS Observations and Seismic Moment Tensors....Pages 175-182 Front Matter....Pages 183-183 The Construction of ICRF2 and Its Impact on the Terrestrial Reference Frame....Pages 185-188 EUREF’s Contribution to National, European and Global Geodetic Infrastructures....Pages 189-196 External Evaluation of the Terrestrial Reference Frame: Report of the Task Force of the IAG Sub-commission 1.2....Pages 197-202 Atmospheric Effects on VLBI-Derived Terrestrial and Celestial Reference Frames....Pages 203-208 Modelling Deformation in a Kinematic Datum....Pages 209-213 Consistent Adjustment of Combined Terrestrial and Celestial Reference Frames....Pages 215-221 On the Alternative Approaches to ITRF Formulation....Pages 223-229 Spatiotemporal Signal and Noise Analysis of GPS Position Time Series of the Permanent Stations in China....Pages 231-237 GPS + GLONASS CORS Processing: The Asian-Pacific APREF Case....Pages 239-246 Direct VLBI Observations of Global Navigation Satellite System Signals....Pages 247-252 First Geodetic Results from the AuScope VLBI Network....Pages 253-258 Realisation of a Geodetic Datum Using a Gridded Absolute Deformation Model (ADM)....Pages 259-265 Front Matter....Pages 267-267 Computing Scheme of Co-seismic Change of Deflection of the Vertical and Applied in the 2010 Chile Earthquake....Pages 269-274 Satellite Gravity Models and Their Use for Estimating Mean Ocean Circulation....Pages 275-281 The Integral-Equation-Based Approaches for Modelling the Local Gravity Field in the Remove–Restore Scheme....Pages 283-289 Validation of Second-Generation GOCE Gravity Field Models by Astrogeodetic Vertical Deflections in Germany....Pages 291-296 On the Estimate of Accuracy and Reliability of the A10 Absolute Gravimeter free-fall gravimeter ....Pages 297-302 Modelling and Observing the Mw 8.8 Chile 2010 and Mw 9.0 Japan 2011 Earthquakes Using GOCE....Pages 303-310 Front Matter....Pages 267-267 Multi-sensor Space Observation of Heavy Flood and Drought Conditions in the Amazon Region....Pages 311-317 Accurate Determination of the Earth Tidal Parameters at the BIPM to Support the Watt Balance Project....Pages 319-324 Towards Constraining Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in Greenland Using ICESat and GPS Observations....Pages 325-331 Determination of High Precision Underground Equipotential Profiles for the Alignment of a Future Linear Collider....Pages 333-339 Reducing the Measurement Time of the Torsion Balance....Pages 341-347 Topographic–Isostatic Reduction of GOCE Gravity Gradients....Pages 349-356 Measurement of Underground Variations in the Deflection of the Vertical with a High Precision Interferometric Deflectometer....Pages 357-363 Analysis of Time Variations of the Gravity Field Over Europe Obtained from GRACE Data in Terms of Geoid Height and Mass Variation....Pages 365-370 Accurate Gravimetry at the BIPM Watt Balance Site....Pages 371-376 Study of the Time Stability of Tides Using a Long Term (1973–2011) Gravity Record at Strasbourg, France....Pages 377-381 Submonthly GRACE Solutions from Localizing Integral Equations and Kalman Filtering....Pages 383-389 The GOCE Estimated Moho Beneath the Tibetan Plateau and Himalaya....Pages 391-397 Validation of GOCE Gravitational Gradients in Satellite Track Cross-Overs....Pages 399-405 Reducing Non-tidal Aliasing Effects by Future Gravity Satellite Formations....Pages 407-412 Preliminary Results from the Superconducting Gravimeter SG-060 Installed in West Africa (Djougou, Benin)....Pages 413-419 Atmospheric Corrections for Superconducting Gravimeters Using Operational Weather Models....Pages 421-427 Micro-Gravity Measurements in Northern Victoria-Land, Antarctica: A Feasibility Study....Pages 429-434 High-Resolution Measurements of Non-Linear Spatial Distribution of Gravity Gradients in Hungary....Pages 435-444 Front Matter....Pages 445-445 Lunar Laser Ranging: Recent Results Based on Refined Modelling....Pages 447-451 Recursive Adjustment Approach for the Estimation of Physical Earth Parameters from Polar Motion....Pages 453-459 Front Matter....Pages 445-445 Atmospheric and Oceanic Excitation of the Free Core Nutation Estimated from Recent Geophysical Models....Pages 461-466 Regional Multi-Fluid-Based Geophysical Excitation of Polar Motion....Pages 467-472 Quantifying the Correlation Between the MEI and LOD Variations by Decomposing LOD with Singular Spectrum Analysis....Pages 473-477 Front Matter....Pages 479-479 Advances of Engineering Geodesy and Artificial Intelligence in Monitoring of Movements and Deformations of Natural and Man-Made Structures....Pages 481-485 Precise Antenna Calibration for Ground-Based Pseudolite....Pages 487-491 Collaborative Positioning in GPS-Challenged Environments....Pages 493-500 Front Matter....Pages 501-501 GNSS Attitude Determination for Remote Sensing: On the Bounding of the Multivariate Ambiguity Objective Function....Pages 503-509 Monitoring Ground Subsidence Using PALSAR and ASAR in Shanghai Downtown Area....Pages 511-518 Front Matter....Pages 519-519 Geoid of Nepal from Airborne Gravity Survey....Pages 521-527 GOCE and the Geoid in South America....Pages 529-534 Derivation of the Topographic Potential from Global DEM Models....Pages 535-542 Strategies for Connecting Imbituba and Santana Brazilian Datums Based on Satellite Gravimetry and Residual Terrain Model....Pages 543-549 Realization of WHS Based on Gravity Field Models Free of Dependencies on Local Vertical Datums....Pages 551-559 Study of Alternatives for Combining Satellite and Terrestrial Gravity Data in Regions with Poor Gravity Information....Pages 561-568 Front Matter....Pages 569-569 Single-Frequency PPP-RTK: Theory and Experimental Results....Pages 571-578 Single Frequency PPP Using Real-Time Regional Broadcast Corrections via NTRIP for the Australian GDA94 Datum....Pages 579-583 Global Assessment of UNB’s Online Precise Point Positioning Software....Pages 585-589 Reliable Integer Ambiguity Resolution....Pages 591-597 Array-Aided CORS Network Ambiguity Resolution....Pages 599-605 A New Newton-Type Iterative Formula for Over-Determined Distance Equations....Pages 607-613 Back Matter....Pages 615-617