Official U.S. government information about the
Global Positioning System (GPS) and related topics
48th Meeting of the Civil GPS Service Interface Committee
At the Marriott Riverfront Hotel
Savannah, Georgia
15-16 September 2008
Agenda
Monday, 15 September 2008
08:00 Registration
Session I
09:00
Welcome/ Opening
Karen VanDyke, DOT/RITA, Chair, CGSIC
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09:10
Meeting Overview
CAPT Thiedeman, NAVCEN, Deputy Chair
09:20
U.S. Space-based Position, Navigation and Timing: A Policy Update
Mike Shaw, NCO
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09:40
GPS Wing Update
Mr. Tom Powell, U.S. Air Force, GPS Wing
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10:00
GPS Constellation Status and Performance
LT Joe Rediesel, U.S. Air Force, 2SOPS
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10:15 Break
10:30
Worldwide GNSS Interoperability
Ray Clore, U.S. State Department
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10:50
The Effect of GPS Jamming on Safe Navigation at Sea
Sally Basker, General Lighthouse Authorities of the United Kingdom & Ireland
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11:10
U.S. Interference Detection & Mitigation Plan (IDM)
John Merrill, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
11:30 Q/A Panel (Presenters)
12:00 Break for Lunch
Session II
13:15
WAAS and LAAS Program Status
Leo Eldredge, DOT/FAA, GNSS Program Manager
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13:35
GNSS Evolutionary Architecture Study
Leo Eldredge, DOT/FAA, GNSS Program Manager
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13:45
Update on NDGPS Program
Tim Klein, DOT/RITA, NDGPS Program Coordinator
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14:05
NASA GPS Developments
Jim Miller, NASA
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14:25
USDA/DOI GPS Challenge Team Overview
Mike Rasher, Department of Agriculture
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14:45 Break
15:00
National PNT Architecture
Karen Van Dyke, DOT/RITA; Lt Col Patrick Huested, National Security Space Office
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15:30 Q/A Panel (Presenters)
Session III
16:00 Subcommittee Reports
Report from International Subcommittee
John Wilde, DW International
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Report from Timing Subcommittee
Dr. Wlodzimierz Lewandowski, BIPM
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Report from U.S. States and Localities Subcommittee
Rudy Persaud, FHWA
Report from Surveying, Mapping, and Geosciences Subcommittee
Richard Snay, NGS
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Session IV
17:00
The Significance of Multiple GNSS Systems to End Users
Glen Gibbons, Inside GNSS
17:15
WAAS for Mapping: It Works Where You Work
Eric Gakstatter, GPS World Magazine
17:30 End of Meeting Day
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
08:15 Registration
Morning Concurrent Sessions:
· International Session ·
John Wilde, Chair, ISC
09:00
Introduction
Karen VanDyke, DOT RITA, CGSIC Chair
09:05
U.S. Space-Based PNT International Cooperation
Alice Wong, U.S. State Department
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09:25
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
Maureen Walker, U.S. State Department
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09:45
GLONASS Update
Sergey Revnivykh, PNT Information Navigation Center, The Russian Federation
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10:15
GALILEO Update
Paul Verhoef, Head of Unit, Galileo, European Commission
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10:45
GNSS Systems Interoperability
Francisco Salabert, DDAS/GNSS Policy Office, EUROCONTROL
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11:05 Break
11:15
Australia Country Report
Ian Mallett, CASA
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11:30
The Two Basic Bills for GNSS Utilization in Japan
Hiroshi Nishiguchi, Japan GPS Council
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11:45
Regulation of RTK Services in Denmark
Anna Jensen, on behalf of the Danish Mapping Agency
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12:00
Some GNSS applications in the Czech Republic
Prof. František Vejražka, Czech Technical University
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Poland Report
ASG-EUPOS NETWORK, Janusz Sledzinski, FRIN
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12:15 Panel Discussion: GNSS Market Access Issues
- Ed Morris and Paul Verhoef, Working Group B Co-Chairs
View presentation (127 KB PDF) - Mike Swiek, GPS Industry Council
- John Pottle, Spirent
- Javad Ashjaee, Javad
- TBD (possibly u-Blox)
13:00
Closing Remarks
CGSIC Deputy Chair (International) / ISC Acting Chair - John Wilde
13:05 Session Ends
· U.S. States and Localities Session ·
Rudy Persaud, Federal Highway Administration, Chair
08:30
Introduction
Capt Edwin Thiedeman, NAVCEN, Deputy Chair
08:35
Welcome
Rudy Persaud, USDOT/FHWA, Chair USSLS
08:40
Inland Nationwide Differential GPS (NDGPS) Program Status
Timothy Klein, U.S. DOT/RITA
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09:05
NDGPS Project Status
LCDR Jacob. J. Ramos, NAVCEN
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09:30
How NPS uses GPS to assist in GIS applications and Vegetation Inventories
Karl Brown, DOI/NPS
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09:55
Elements of the Nation Spatial Reference System
Dave Doyle, NOAA/NGS
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10:20 Break
10:35
Detail on techniques, results and lessons learned using GPS/NDGPS
Mike Rasher, USDA
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11:00
Gravity survey campaign and update on Oregon real-time GPS network
Kenneth Bays, Oregon DOT
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11:25
Contributions on GPS data to severe weather forecasting
Seth Gutman, NOAA/ESRL
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11:50
Update on Minnesota GPS program
Richard Morey, Minnesota, DOT
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12:15
Closing Remarks
Deputy Chair, DeLane Meier, North Dakota, DOT
12:30 Session End
Afternoon Concurrent Sessions:
· Timing Session ·
Dr. Wlodzimierz Lewandowski, BIPM, Chair; Co-Chair: Victor Zhang, NIST
14:00
Introduction
Wlodzimierz Lewandowski, BIPM
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14:20
Report from NIST
Victor Zhang, NIST
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14:40
USNO Time Service
Demetrios Matsakis, USNO
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15:00
Timing operations
Wendy Kelley, USNO
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15:10
Progress on time transfer calibration
Ed Powers, USNO
15:20 Break
15:40
Update on the ITU-R WP7A work on the Future of UTC
Tom Bartholomew
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16:00
Time and Navigation Exhibition at the Smithsonian: An Update
Carlene E. Stephens, National Museum of American History
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16:20 Discussion
17:20 Session End
· Surveying, Mapping, and Geosciences Session ·
Chair, Richard Snay, National Geodetic Survey
13:30
Welcome
Dr. Richard Snay, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey
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13:35
CORS/OPUS: Overview and Status
Giovanni Sella, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey
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13:50
NGS Support for Real-Time GNSS Positioning
William Henning, NOAA NGS
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14:05 PANEL SESSION: Real-Time GNSS Networks
- Gavin Schrock, Washington State Reference Network
View presentation (1 MB PDF) - Art Andrew, Orange County, California
View presentation (2 MB PDF) - Lewis Lapine, South Carolina Geodetic Survey
View presentation (1 MB PDF) - Ken Bays, Oregon Department of Transportation
View presentation (9 MB PDF) - Jim Waters, Tennessee Department of Transportation
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14:45 Question & Answer Session with Panel of the Speakers
15:30 Break
15:45 Interactive Sessions within Small Discussion Groups
- Group A: Real-Time Positioning from the Network Operator’s Perspective
- Group B: Real-Time Positioning from the User’s Perspective
- Group C: OPUS and other CORS Utilities
- Group D: Ionospheric & Tropospheric Modeling
17:00 Session End
