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IAG NEWSLETTER
IAG Newsletter Gyula Tóth1 Published online: 25 November 2020 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
The IAG Newsletter is under the editorial responsibility of the Communication and Outreach Branch (COB) of the IAG. It is an open forum, and contributors are welcome to send material (preferably in electronic form) to the IAG COB ([email protected]). These contributions should complement information sent by IAG officials or by IAG symposia organizers (reports and announcements). The IAG Newsletter is published monthly. It is available in different formats from the IAG Internet site: http://www.iag-aig.org. Each IAG Newsletter includes several of the following topics: I. General information II. Reports of IAG symposia III. Reports by commissions, special commissions or study groups IV. Symposia announcements V. Book reviews VI. Fast bibliography
General Announcements Toward the creation of a Global Geodetic Center of Excellence Brief report on the UN-GGIM 10th session The tenth session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) was held in a scaled down virtual format, consisting of three two-hour meetings, on August 26–27 and September 4, 2020. Full details regarding the agenda
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Gyula Tóth [email protected] http://www.iag-aig.org/ IAG Communication and Outreach Branch, Department of Geodesy and Surveying, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest 1521, Hungary
can be found here: https://ggim.un.org/meetings/GGIMcommittee/10th-Session/documents/. Of interest to our association is the Agenda item #6, dealing with the Global Geodetic Reference Frame (GGRF). The Subcommittee on Geodesy (SCoG) has prepared a full report describing its activities during the intersessional period, including the responses of the IAG Services to the questionnaire on the geodetic infrastructure that was prepared by the lead of the corresponding Working Group (the author of this brief report). The SCoG has also prepared and submitted to the 10th session, for discussion, a Position Paper on Sustaining the Global Geodetic Reference Frame, as well as a Concept Paper on establishing a Global Geodetic Centre of Excellence (GGCE). The aim of the GGCE is to improve collaboration and coordination amongst Member States, in coordination with the IAG, in sustaining the global geodetic reference frame, and in particular its geodetic infrastructure. An offer to host the office of the GGCE for the UN-GGIM was submitted by the Federal Government of Germany (coordinated by the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy—BKG) which is intended to be located at the UN Campus in Bonn. The offer has received a number of supports from Member States, as well as from IAG (see the letter of support of IAG President https://www.iag-aig.org/doc/5f6 c5ffa95613.pdf). In its statement available here: https://ggim.un.org/meetings/GGIM-committee/10 th-Session/documents/Proforma_Agenda-item-6-IAGStatement.pdf, the IAG emphasized the need for detailed a
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