GGOS Coordinating Board Meeting 2023
Minutes
Date:
Time:Venue:

Saturday, April 22, 2023
14:00 – 19:00 CEST (5h)
TU Wien, Wiedener Hauptstraße 8-10, 1040 Vienna (Freihaus)
Room: seminar room DA grün 02A

Presentations:Meeting Website:

https://cloud.ggos.org/index.php/s/yXb4sE4jKErpn3F
https://ggos.org/event/cb-meeting-2023/

Schedule:
Part 1: 14:00 – 16:00 – Reports of current activities:
Welcome and Introduction (Basara Miyahara)
New GGOS Strategic Plan (Basara Miyahara)
Change of GGOS Structure (Laura Sánchez)
Ideas for new GGOS Focus Areas (Basara Miyahara)
Proposal for a new Focus Area on “AI and Machine Learning for Geodesy” (Benedikt Soja)
GGOS Portal (Martin Sehnal)
GGOS Outreach Activities & Cooperation with IAG COB (Martin Sehnal)
Break - 20 Minutes
Part 2: 16:20 – 19:00 – Updates of GGOS Components:
GGOS Days 2023 (José López-Fernández - virtual)
GGOS Japan – Recent Activities (Toshi Otsubo - virtual)
The upcoming GGOS Affiliate: Iberoatlantic (Esther Azcue)
Bureau of Networks and Observations – Current Status (Mike Pearlman - virtual)
Bureau of Products and Standards – Future Activities (Detlef Angermann)
Focus Area "Geodetic Space Weather Research" – Current Activities (Michael Schmidt - virtual)
Focus Area "Geohazards" – Recent Activities (John LaBrecque - virtual)
Focus Area "Unified Height System" (Laura Sanchez)
The new established UN Global Geodetic Center of Excellence (Jan Dostal - virtual)
Working Group on “DOIs for Geodetic Data Sets” (Kirsten Elger)
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Minutes
Report:This Coordinating Board meeting was held the first time after 3 years again as an in-person meeting withthe possibility to participate online. It was held on the Saturday before the EGU 2023 General Assemblyat the Technical University of Vienna.
It was divided into two parts. The first part focused on general and organizational activities of GGOS.
Basara Miyahara presented the status of the new GGOS Strategic Plan. All GGOS Coordinating Board
members will get the possibility to review it until June 2023. The intention is to finish it in June andpublish it with the IUGG General Assembly 2023 in Berlin, Germany.
Laura Sánchez presented the proposal to change the structure of GGOS in order to merge the GGOS
Coordinating Board with the GGOS Consortium and create the new GGOS Governing Board (all details
are available in the presentation slides). It was proposed that the UN-GGCE has one voting
representative within the GGOS Governing Board. But it has to be clarified if this is possible and allowedby IAG. This will be discussed on Wednesday, April 26, where Basara Miyahara will present this GGOS
structure change at the IAG Executive Committee meeting in Vienna. In general, the GGOS CB members
are in favor about this proposal. The approval of this structure change by GGOS CB members will bepostponed.
Benedikt Soja presented the proposal to establish a new GGOS Focus Area on “AI for Geodesy”. During
the next weeks this proposal will be sent out to all GGOS CB members for approval.
Martin Sehnal presented the proposal to establish collaboration between GGOS and IAG Communication
and Outreach Branch to achieve more efficient and effective geodesy outreach to outside of IAG. Theidea is to merge efforts of GGOS and IAG COB and establish new position taking care of all outreach in
IAG and GGOS. The basic concept is accepted and Martin Sehnal will present this to the IAG ExecutiveCommittee meeting on Wednesday, April 26 in Vienna for further discussion.
The second part offered each GGOS component the opportunity to present updates since the 2022
GGOS Days in Munich. Beside of these activities, Jan Dostal presented recent developments in the UNGGIM ScoG and about the opening ceremony of the UN-GGCE in Bonn, José López-Fernández showed
the preparation activities for the next GGOS Days 2023 in Yebes and Esther Azcue presented the recent
activities to establish the new Affiliate “GGOS Iberoatlantic”.
Allison Craddock raised an issue on lack of visibility of geodesy in reports/documents by the UN andother international bodies. For example, precise monitoring of sea level rise has been never realized
without geodesy. GGOS and its external relations will work more on raising awareness to the value ofgeodesy by making these facts be described in such documents.
Please see all details in the presentation
https://cloud.ggos.org/index.php/s/yXb4sE4jKErpn3Fslides

availableattheGGOS

Cloud:GGOS Coordinating Board Meeting 2023
MinutesParticipants:
All GGOS Coordinating Board members and some guests were invited to participate in this GGOS
Coordinating Board meeting. All together 21 persons participated, 13 of them on site.
Name
Kirsten Elger
Basara Miyahara
Detlef Angerman
Laura Sánchez
Martin Sehnal
Benedikt Soja
Esther Azcue
Richard Gross
Daniela Thaller
Urs Marti
Zuheir Altamimi
Allison Craddock
Robert Heinkelmann
Michael Pearlman
John LaBrecqueMichael Schmidtmember
CB member
CB member
CB member
CB memberCB member
invited guest
invited guest
CB member
CB member
CB member
CB member
CB member
CB member
CB member
CB member
CB member
Jan Dostal
invited guest
Toshimichi Otsubo
CB memberJose Antonio Lopez Fernandez invited guest
Claudia Tocho
CB member
Riccardo Barzaghi
CB member
Adrian Jäggi
CB member
Ryan Hippenstiel
CB member
Hansjörg Kutterer
CB member
Kosuke Heki
CB member
Maik Thomas
CB member
Nicholas Brown
CB member
Ludwig Combrinck
CB member
Roland Pail
CB memberSean Bruinsma
CB memberTonie Van Dam
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