The Interdisciplinary Role of Space Geodesy - Revisited

Reiner Rummel (1)

1 Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology [München]

In 1988 the interdisciplinary role of space geodesy has been discussed by a prominent group of leaders in the fields of geodesy and geophysics at an international workshop in Erice, (Mueller I I, S Zerbini, 1989). The workshop may be viewed as the starting point of a new era of geodesy as a discipline of Earth sciences. Since then enormous progress has been made in geodesy in terms of satellite and sensor systems, observation techniques, data processing, modelling and interpretation. The establishment of a Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) which is currently underway is a milestone in this respect. Wegener served as an important role model for the definition of GGOS. In turn, Wegener will benefit from becoming a regional entity of GGOS.

Mots clés: Geodesy; Satellite geodesy; Global observing system; Global geodetic observing system

Reiner Rummel. The Interdisciplinary Role of Space Geodesy - Revisited. Journal of Geodynamics, 2010, 49 (3-4), pp.112. ⟨10.1016/j.jog.2009.10.006⟩. ⟨hal-00615309⟩