PROGRAMME
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Saturday, 18 May
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13.00-13.05
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
Dr. Ryan Keenan, Chair, FIG Commission 5;
TBD, FIG/Local Organizing Committee
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13:05 – 14:45
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Session 1: International Geodesy Initiatives
1) ICG at UN
Ms. Sharafat Gadimova, United Nations Office
for Outer Space Affairs
2) IAG
Dr. Richard Gross, President, International
Association of Geodesy
3) The International GNSS Service and International
Association of Geodesy: Serving Surveyors
Ms. Allison Craddock, IGS Central Bureau
Director
4) United Nations – Global Geodetic Centre of Excellence
Dr. Nicholas Brown, UN-GGCE Head of Office
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14:45 – 15:15
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Break
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15:15 – 17:15
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Session 2: Introduction to Geodetic Reference Frame
Theory
5) The Importance of Terrestrial Reference Frames to Science
and Society
Dr. Richard Gross, President, International
Association of Geodesy
6) Dynamic Datums and Deformation Models
Dr. Chris Pearson, Trimble, University of
Otago, New Zealand
7) Modern vertical and gravity referencing techniques
Mr. David Avalos, INEGI, Mexico
8) Geoid modeling around the world
Dr. Kevin Ahlgren, National Geodetic Survey,
USA
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19.30
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Seminar Dinner (TBD)
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Sunday, 19 May
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08:30 – 10:00
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Session 3: Reference Frames in African Region
9) Spatially-aware healthcare provisioning/governance and the
need for reliable reference frames
Dr. Augustus Aturinde, Uganda
10) CORS Monumentation
Mr. John Galetzka, National Geodetic Survey,
USA (Pre-recorded)
11) AFREF
Ms. Rachael Umazi Gedion, Regional Centre for
Mapping of Resources for Development, Kenya
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10:00 – 10:30
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Morning Break
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10:30 – 12:00
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Session 4: African Case Studies
12) ITRF and Geodetic Reference Frames in Africa
Mr. Diogoye Diouf, Senegal
13) Nigeria
Mr. Izuegbu Ogochukwu, Nigeria
14) TBD
TBD
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12:00 – 13:30
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Lunch Break
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13:30 – 14:30
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Session 5: International Case Studies
15) Using NTv2 Files for Datum Transformations in Deforming
Regions: The Cases of Bhutan and Chile
Dr. Rui Fernandes, University of Beira
Interior, Portugal
16) Taiwan Case Study
Prof. Peter T.Y. Shih, National Yang Ming Chiao
Tung University, Taiwan
17) New Zealand Case Study
Dr. Nic Donnelly, LINZ, New Zealand
(Pre-recorded)
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14:30 – 15:00
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Break
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15:00 – 16:00
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Panel Discussion
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