Dear FGCS members and community, (please feel free to share this email with any of your colleagues; everyone is invited to participate in the webinar described below)
You are invited to participate in a webinar on May 9 from 1300-1500 Eastern Time on NOAA's Gravity for the Redefinition of the American Vertical Datum (GRAV-D) project. The webinar will be led by Dr. Theresa Diehl, a research geodesist with NOAA's National Geodetic Survey. Here is the agenda:
Agenda
- Overview of the need for and inception of the GRAV-D program
- Program goals and plans to achieve them
- Current status of program
- Near-term plans over the next few fiscal years
Break (10 min)
Second Half (45 min):
- Gravity and geoid product availability
- Partnerships (for data collection, geoid-creation, and education)
- Plans for implementing the new geoid as the official U.S. vertical datum
- Long-term monitoring
Question & Answer Period (20 min)
You can register for the webinar here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/141758587
Teleconference number: 877-491-2679, passcode 261039
Finally, here is a link to the GRAV-D project home page: http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/GRAV-D/