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Time Schedule of the VI Hotine-Marussi Symposium of Theoretical and Computational Geodesy:
Challenge and Role of Modern Geodesy
Wuhan University, 29 May – 2 June 2006, China

Day/Time

May 28, Sun

May 29, Mon

May 30, Tue

31 May, Wed

8:00-9:45

Registration
(Hongyi Hotel)

Registration
(Hongyi Hotel)

S1: Room A

S4-I: Room A

9:45-10:15

Coffee Break

10:15-12:00

S6: Room A

S9-I: Room A

12:00-14:00

Opening Session
Room A

Lunch Time

14:00-15:45

S2-I: Room A

S8-I: Room A

15:45-16:15

Coffee Break

16:15-18:00

S2-II: Room A

S8-II: Room A

Events

 

Reception

 

Banquet

Day/Time

Jun 1, Thu

Jun 2, Fri

8:00-9:45

S3-I: Room A

S5-I: Room A

S7-I: Room B

9:45-10:15

Coffee Break

10:15-12:00

S3-II: Room A

S5-II: Room A

S7-II: Room B

12:00-14:00

Lunch Time

Closing Session: Room A

14:00-15:45

S4-II: Room A

S9-II: Room B

 

15:45-16:15

Coffee Break

 

16:15-18:00

S4-III: Room A

S9-III: Room B

 
Events    

Poster Session     Tuesday – Thursday: 12:00-14:00     Poster Room

 



Registration (Inside Hongyi Hotel): Sunday, 28 May, and Monday Morning, 29 May


 

Monday Afternoon, 29 May

 

Opening session I (.PDF)

Conference Room A: 13:30 – 15:05

Convener: Xu P.L.

 

13:30-13:40; Two brief speeches by Hubei Provincial and Wuhan City Officials

 

13:40-13:45; Brief speech by Prof. J.N. Liu, President of Wuhan University

 

13:45-13:55; Sanso F. (.PDF)

History of the Hotine-Marussi Symposium History

 

13:55-14:05; Xu P.L. (.PDF)

Outline of this Symposium

 

14:05-14:35; Beutler G. - IAG President: Invited Keynote Speech (.PDF)

Geodetic monitoring of the Earth and the role of geodetic theory in the age of space geodesy

 

14:35-15:05; Drewes H. (.PDF)

Objectives and perspectives for the realization of geodetic reference frames (invited)

 

 

 

15:05-15:30; Coffee Break

 

 

 

Opening session II

Conference Room A: 15:30 – 17:30

Convener: Sanso F.

 

15:30-16:00; Rizos C. (.PDF)

The research challenges of IAG Commission 4 “Positioning & Applications” (invited)

 

16:00-16:30; Neilan R.E. (.PDF)

The International Association of Geodesy (IAG) Services: A perspective on their history, evolution, and contribution to the IAG’s new Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) (invited)

 

16:30-17:00; Chao B.F. (.PDF)

Earth's rotational variations and their climatic connections (invited)

 

17:00-17:30; Liu J.N. (.PDF)

Geodetic education, research and perspectives in China (invited)

 


18:30 – Reception

 


 

 

Tuesday Morning, 30 May

Session: Time-variable gravity and geodynamics

Conference Room A: 8:00 – 9:45

Convener: Chao B.F.

 

8:00-8:30; Hsu H.Z.

Detection of Earth gravity and its temporal change (invited)

 

8:30-8:45; Chao B.F. (.PDF)

On the inversion for mass (re)distribution from global (time-variable) gravity field

 

8:45-9:00; Ramillien G., Lombard A., Cazenave A. (.PDF)

Ice sheets mass balance from GRACE and contribution to sea level

 

9:00-9:15; Sun S.A., Xiang A.M., Zhu P., Shen C.Y. (.PDF)

Gravity change after the first water impoundment in Three Gorges Project

 

9:15-9:30; Zhang Z.Z., Lu Y., Hsu H.Z. (.PDF)

Modeling the time variations of the Earth gravity field by ensemble Kalman filter

 

9:30-9:45; Peters Th. (.PDF)

Atmospheric de-aliasing revisited

 


 

9:45-10:15; Coffee Break

 


 

Tuesday Morning, 30 May

Session: Reference system: Definition and Monitoring

Conference Room A: 10:15 – 12:05

Conveners: Drewes H. and Altamimi Z.

 

10:15-10:40; Altamimi Z., Collilieux X., Boucher C.(.PDF)

Accuracy assessment of the ITRF datum definition (invited)

 

10:40-11:05; Dermanis A. (.PDF)

The ITRF beyond the "linear" model: Choices and challenges (invited)

 

11:05-11:20; Yao Y.B. (.PDF)

Research on the non-linear motions of GPS tracking sites

 

11:20-11:35; Zou R., Shi C. (.PDF)

TRF implementation by rigorous combination of space geodetic techniques

 

11:35-11:50; Feng Y.M. (.PDF)

On the consistency of geodetic datum realizations

 

11:50-12:05; Sanchez L. (.PDF)

Approach for the establishment of a global vertical reference system

 

 


 

12:05-14:00; Lunch Time

 


 

Tuesday Afternoon, 30 May

Session: Theoretical developments in spaceborne gravimetry, Part I

Conference Room A: 14:00 – 15:45

Convener: Sneeuw N.

 

14:00-14:30; Ilk K.H. (.PDF)

Do we need new gravity field recovery techniques for the new gravity field satellites? (invited)

 

14:30-14:45; Zhao D.M., Zhang C.D., Wu X.P.

Recursive formulae for some special fixed integrals of the Legendre function

 

14:45-15:00; Wang C.G., Hwang C.W. (.PDF)

Gravity recovery from range rate using analytical orbital perturbation

 

15:00-15:15; Keller W. (.PDF)

A localizing base functions representation of low mode SST observations

 

15:15-15:30; Ditmar P., Liu X.L. (.PDF)

Gravity field modeling on the basis of GRACE range-rate combinations

 

15:30-15:45; Wild F., Heck B.(.PDF)

Topographic and isostatic reductions for use in satellite gravity gradiometry

 


 

15:45-16:15; Coffee Break

 


 

Tuesday Afternoon, 30 May

Session: Theoretical developments in spaceborne gravimetry, Part II

Conference Room A: 16:15 – 18:00

Convener: Hwang C.W.

 

16:15-16:45; Haagmans R. (.PDF)

ESA’s gravity field mission GOCE and beyond (invited)

 

16:45-17:00; Xu C., Sneeuw N., Sideris M.G.(.PDF)
The Torus approach in spaceborne gravimetry

 

17:00-17:15; Van Loon J.P., Kusche J.(.PDF)

Robust estimation and robust re-weighting in satellite gravity modeling

 

17:15-17:30; Shen Y.Z., Xu P.L.(.PDF)

Recovering along-orbit accelerations from satellite’s precise orbits as an inverse ill-posed problem

 

17:30-17:45; Sneeuw N., Sharifi M., Keller W.(.PDF)

Gravity recovery from formation flight missions

 

17:45-18:00; Wang X.T., Xiao Y.

The accuracy analysis for Earth gravity model recovered by SST-LL

 


 

Wednesday Morning, 31 May

Session: Earth environmental and natural hazards monitoring and mitigation using modern geodetic methods, Part I

Conference Room A: 8:00 – 9:45

Convener: Fukuda Y.

 

8:00-8:15; Kulkarni M.N. (.PDF)

GPS research for earthquake studies in India

 

8:15-8:30; Wu P., Wang H.S.(.PDF)

Global change and glacially induced surface motion and gravity rate of change on a lateral heterogeneous Earth (invited)

 

8:30-8:45; Han S.-C., Shum C.K., Bevis M., Jekeli C., Kuo C.-Y., Chen J.

Co-seismic deformation from the great December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake observed by GRACE satellites

 

8:45-9:00; Freymueller J.T., Larsen C.F.(.PDF)

Vertical crustal motion in the North Pacific and implications for tide gauge records and sea level rise (invited)

 

9:00-9:15; Yu T.T., Chen C.S. (.PDF)

Geohazard assessment with high resolution LiDAR DEM and photogrammetry DTM: Comparison and validation

 

9:15-9:30; Iz H.B., Ng H.M.(.PDF)

The global impact of transient changes in the mean sea level on trend estimates from the tide gauge data (invited)

 

9:30-9:45; Shum C.K., Kuo C.-Y., Song Y.T.(.PDF)

20th century sea level rise: Its determination and causes

 


 

9:45-10:15; Coffee Break

 


 

Wednesday Morning, 31 May

Session: Statistical estimation and prediction theory, quality improvement and data fusion, Part I

Conference Room A: 10:15 – 12:00

Convener: Chen Y.Q.

 

10:15-10:45; Schaffrin B., Felus Y.

Multivariate total least-squares adjustment for empirical transformations (invited)

 

10:45-11:00; Yang Y.X. (.PDF)

Main progress of adaptively robust Kalman filter with applications in navigation

 

11:00-11:15; Reguzzoni M., Tselfes N., Venuti G.(.PDF)

Stepwise solutions to random field prediction problems

 

 

11:15-11:30; Howind J., Heck B.(.PDF)

Correlations in time series of GPS carrier phase observations

 

11:30-11:45; Zhou S.J., Lu T.D.(.PDF)

The algorithm of the adaptive control with time change parameter and application in the kinematic surveying

 

11:45-12:00; Arabelos D. N., Forsberg R., Tscherning C.C. (.PDF)

Error covariance estimates in the Arctic Ocean

 


 

12:05-14:00; Lunch Time

 

 


 

Wednesday Afternoon, 31 May

Session: Inverse problems in geodesy: theory, global optimization, and applications, Part I

Conference Room A: 14:00 – 15:45

Convener: Kusche J.

 

14:00-14:15; Ardalan A., Safari A., Allahtavakoli Y.

On the optimum choices of estimation of regularization parameter for downward continuation problem of geoid computation without applying Stokes formula

 

14:15-14:30; Novak P., Tenzer R.

Integral inversion of traditional and current gravity data: generalized approach

 

14:30-15:00; Han S.-C., Shum C.K., Jekeli C.(.PDF)

Precise determination and inversion of low-low satellite-to-satellite tracking data for regional time-variable gravity (invited)

 

15:00-15:15; Xu C.J., Wen Y.M.(.PDF)

Inverting Coulomb failure stress change of main faults in the Sichuan-Yunnan area in the past 100 years with GPS and earthquake data

 

15:15-15:30; Michel D. (.PDF)

New approaches on multiscale modeling of oceanic currents

 

15:30-15:45; Gutting M. (.PDF)

Domain decomposition methods in inverse problems

 


  15:45-16:15; Coffee Break

         


 

Wednesday Afternoon, 31 May

Session: Inverse problems in geodesy: theory, global optimization, and applications, Part II

Conference Room A: 16:15 – 18:00

Convener: Schaffrin B.

 

16:15-16:45; Freeden W. (.PDF)

Local multiscale modelling of geoid undulations from deflections of the vertical (invited)

 

16:45-17:00; Xu P.L., Shen Y.Z., Fukuda Y., Liu Y.M.(.PDF)

Variance component estimation in linear inverse ill-posed models

 

17:00-17:15; Kotsakis C. (.PDF)

Correcting the smoothing effect of least-squares collocation with a covariance-adaptive optimal transformation

 

17:15-17:30; Zhang C.Y., Xu C.J.(.PDF)

A new sequential algorithm on joint inversion of various observations

 

17:30-17:45; Fok H.S., Iz H. B., Schaffrin B.(.PDF)

Performance of alternative geodetic network densification solutions under biased reference station coordinates of various precisions

 

17:45-18:00; Xue S.Q., Dang Y.M.(.PDF)

A theory of inversion model optimum design and its applications in geodesy

 

 

 


 

18:30- Symposium Banquet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Thursday Morning, 1 June

Session: Integrated deformation measurement and geophysical interpretations, Part I

Conference Room A: 8:00 – 9:45

Convener: Freymueller J.T.

 

8:00-8:25; Ye S.H. (.PDF)

Some applications of space geodetic techniques in Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (invited)

 

8:25-8:50; Holt W.E., Ghosh A., Haines A.J., Flesch L.(.PDF)

A global inversion for the distribution of basal lithospheric tractions associated with the coupling of mantle circulation (invited)

 

8:50-9:05; Wang Q., Yang S.M., Tan K.(.PDF)

The crustal shortening within high Tibet and its tectonic implication

 

9:05-9:20; Wang Q.L., Cui D.X., Wang W.P., Zhu G.Z.

New shear zone inner ordos block caused by traction of rotating block of North-Eastern Tibetan plateau

 

9:20-9:45; Fujita M., Ishikawa T., Matsumoto Y., Mochizuki M., Sato M., Yabuki T., Asada A.,

Colombo O.L.(.PDF)

Undersea intraplate crustal movement off Miyagi Prefecture , NE   Japan (invited)

 


 

9:45-10:15; Coffee Break

 


 

Thursday Morning, 1 June

Session: Integrated deformation measurement and geophysical interpretations, Part II

Conference Room A: 10:15 – 12:00

Convener: Heki K.

 

10:15-10:30; Freymueller J.T., Cross R.S., Fletcher H., Haeussler P.J.(.PDF)

Block tectonics of Alaska

 

10:30-10:45; Gu G.H.

Vertical crustal movement from 1998 to 2005 obtained from GPS observations in Chinese Mainland and its neighborhood

 

10:45-11:00; Chen T., Xu C.J., Liu J.N., Yi C.R.

Simulation of crustal velocity field of Chuandian by spherical numerical manifold method and GPS data

 

11:00-11:15; Du Z.X., Yang F.L., Lu X.S.(.PDF)

Joint inversion research on the strain status of each block and drape zone in Chinese Continent

 

11:15-11:30; Yang Z.Q., Yang J.H.

The crustal deformation measurement and geophysics analysis researching in southern Tibet

 

 

11:30-11:45; Li Z.C., Xu C.J., Zhang J.Q., Zhang P.(.PDF)

The co-seismic deformation analysis considering the earth structure and its application on Sumatra large earthquake

 

11:45-12:00; Cai J.Q., Koivula H., Grafarend E.W., Poutanen M.(.PDF)

The statistical analysis of the eigenspace components of the strain rate tensor derived from FinnRef GPS measurements (1997-2004) in Fennoscandia

 

 


 

12:05-14:00; Lunch Time

 


 

Thursday Afternoon, 1 June

Session: Earth environmental and natural hazards monitoring and mitigation using modern geodetic methods, Part II

Conference Room A: 14:00 – 15:45

Convener: Shum C.K.

 

14:00-14:15; Sato T. (.PDF)

Application of modern geodetic measurements to the geophysics and environmental problem (invited)

 

14:15-14:30; Shibuya K., Doi K., Nogi Y., Fukuda Y., Fukuzaki Y. (.PDF)

Recent progress of geodynamic research in the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) area (invited)

 

14:30-14:45; Kusche J., Fenoglio-Marc L.(.PDF)

On the `filtering' of time-variable spherical harmonic GRACE gravity solutions (invited)

 

14:45-15:00; Fukuda Y., Yamamoto K.Nakaegawa T., Nishijima J. (.PDF)

Monitoring of the groundwater variation in urban area, by combining GRACE data and in-situ gravity measurements

 

15:00-15:15; Yuan D.N., Watkins M.M. (.PDF)

Recent Mascon solutions from GRACE (invited)

 

15:15-15:30; Chen Y.Q., Han S.-C., Schaffrin B., Shum C.K. Chen(.PDF)

Continental water storage changes from Grace line-of-sight range acceleration measurements

 

15:30-15:45; Duan J.B., Zhong M., Yan H.M. (.PDF)

Recovery of time-variable land water storage in China by GRACE (invited)

 


 

15:45-16:15; Coffee Break

   


 

Thursday Afternoon, 1 June

Session: Statistical estimation and prediction theory, quality improvement and data fusion, Part II

Conference Room B: 14:00 – 15:45

Convener: Yang Y.X.

 

14:00-14:30; Kutterer H., Neumann I.(.PDF)

Multidimensional statistical tests for imprecise data (invited)

 

14:30-14:45; Peng J.H.Guo C.X.(.PDF)

Robust estimate of variance component based on dispersion model

 

14:45-15:00; Hanssen R.F., Marinkovic P.M., van Leijen F., Ketelaar G.

Quality assessment for persistent scatterer interferometric radar estimation

 

15:00-15:15; Kargoll B. (.PDF)

Testing the adequacy of functional and stochastic models in linear regression problems

 

15:15-15:30; Duan X.J., Wang J.Q.(.PDF)

Improved semiparametric regression model based on sparse representation for LEO orbit determination

 

15:30-15:45; Li M.S., Liu Y.C., Lu Z.P., Bao J.Y., Zou Y.G.

Order statistics filtering for detecting outliers in depth data along a sounding line

 


 

15:45-16:15; Coffee Break

     


 

Thursday Afternoon, 1 June

Session: Earth environmental and natural hazards monitoring and mitigation using modern geodetic methods, Part III

Conference Room A: 16:15 – 18:00

Convener:Yuan D.N.

 

16:15-16:30; Wen D.B., Ou J.K., Yuan Y.B.

A hybrid reconstruction algorithm for computerized ionospheric tomography

 

16:30-16:45; Heki K. (.PDF)

GPS-TEC as a new versatile sensor of the Earth

 

16:45-17:00; Li T., Liu J.N., Xia Y. (.PDF)

Bam earthquake deformation observing by Envisat ASAR images

 

17:00-17:15; Wang H., Xu C.J., Ge L.L., Du Z.X. (.PDF)

3-D displacement field of the 8 October 2005 Kashmir earthquake inferred from ASAR amplitude measurements

 

   

17:15-17:30; Wen H.J., Zhang C.Y., Zhu G.B.

The EOF analysis of sea level anomaly time series derived from ERS-2 and TOPEX altimeter data

 

17:30-17:45; Zhao C.Y., Zhang Q., Ding X.L. (.PDF)

The primary subsidence results in Xi’an city by D-InSAR technique

 

17:45-18:00; Li Y.B., Xu S.Q., Hu Y. (.PDF)

Current status of landslide monitoring in Three Georges reservoir area

 

 

 


 

Thursday Afternoon, 1 June

Session: Statistical estimation and prediction theory, quality improvement and data fusion, Part III

Conference Room B: 16:15 – 18:00

Convener: Kutterer H.

 

16:15-16:30; Teunissen P.J.G. (.PDF)

Collocation with integer trend

 

16:30-16:45; Amiri-Simkooei A.R., Tiberius C.C.J.M., Teunissen P.J.G.(.PDF)

Noise characteristics in high precision GPS positioning

 

16:45-17:00; Wang X.Z., Xu C.Q.(.PDF)

Maximum possibility estimation method with applications in GPS ambiguity resolution

17:00-17:15; K. Le Bail, O. de Viron, M. Feissel-Vernier (.PDF)

Statistical evaluation of the stability of VLBI, SLR, DORIS and GPS station networks

17:15-17:30; Qiu W.N. (.PDF)

Robust estimation in adjustment of correlated observations

 

17:30-17:45; Feng G.C., Zhu J.J. (.PDF)

A study on the inequality constrained least squares

 

17:45-18:00; Han S.H., Gui Q.M.(.PDF)

Robust double k-ridge estimator and its applications in GPS rapid positioning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Friday Morning, 2 June

Session: GNSS: Mathematical theory, algorithms and engineering applications, Part I

Conference Room A: 8:00 – 9:45

Convener: Dermanis A.

 

8:00-8:15; Teunissen P.J.G. (.PDF)

GNSS ambiguity resolution: When and How to fix or not to fix (invited)

 

8:15-8:30; Ge M.R., Gendt G., Rothacher M.(.PDF)

Integer ambiguity resolution for precise point positioning

 

8:30-8:45; Li B.F., Shen Y.Z.(.PDF)

Optimal combination of Galileo inter-frequency

 

8:45-9:00; Petrovich D., Piche R.(.PDF)

A comparison of particle filters for personal positioning

 

9:00-9:15; Roggero M. (.PDF)

Kinematic GPS batch processing: A source for large sparse problems

 

9:15-9:30; Wang G.W., Wang Z.M., Yin H.T.

A distance-independent GPS long baseline three carrier ambiguity resolution method

 

9:30-9:45; Cai J.Q., Hu C.W., Grafarend E.W., Wang J.X.(.PDF)

The uniform Tykhonov-Phillips regularization (a-weighted S-homBLE) and its application in GPS rapid static positioning

 

 


 

9:45-10:15; Coffee Break

   


 

Friday Morning, 2 June

Session: Deterministic and random fields analysis with application to BVP, approximation theory, Part I

Conference Room B: 8:00 – 9:45

Convener: Heck B.

 

8:00-8:30; Sanso F., Sacerdote F.(.