Workshop on Geodesy Applications of the ACES Mission

ESA Topical Team on "Geodesy, Clocks and Time Transfer"

from:    Tuesday, October 25, 2011, starting at 1 pm
    to:    Wednesday, October 26, 2011, ending at 1 pm

place:    GFZ, Telegrafenberg, Building A 19, seminar room

Registration desk:
    Telegrafenberg, building A 17, room 10.27 (second floor)
    Opening hours: Tuesday, 25. October, 10 am - 1 pm

NEW - for download:
Workshop information leaflet
Workshop Programme

• ACES on board the International Space Station
  
• Data Processing for ACES
• Microwave and Optical Techniques for Frequency Transfer
• GNSS Applications (precise orbit determination, radio occultation, reflectometry, relativity with GIOVE-B, etc.)
• Future Technologies, Future Missions (new GNSS signals, gravity missions, fundamental physics missions (e.g. STE-QUEST), new clock technologies for space gravity missions, etc.)

To register for the workshop, submit an abstract or to obtain further information, please send an e-mail to the Local Organizing Committee.

Deadlines: Registration - 14 October 2011


ABSTRACTS SUBMITTED (as of 10 October 2011):

Session "ACES on board the International Space Station"

L. Cacciapuoti, R. Much, R. Nasca, M.-P. Hess, J. Kehrer and C. Salomon:
ACES Mission Status

Dirk Piester, Michael Rost and Andreas Bauch:
First concept for integration of an ACES ground terminal for time and frequency comparisons with PTB's clocks

K. U. Schreiber, P. Lauber, J. Eckl and Ivan Prochazka:
Example for the ELT Ground Segment for ACES

A. Helm, M.-P. Hess, M. Minori, S. Rakers, C. Daniel, S. Yudanov, A. Granget, G. Beyerle, O. Montenbruck, L. Cacciapuoti and R. Nasca:
The ACES GNSS remote sensing concept and status of the GNSS subsystem

C. Salomon, P. Wolf, L. Blanchet, C. J. Bordé, S. Reynaud and C. Cohen-Tannoudji:
ACES and Tests of the Gravitational Red Shift

Wolfgang Schäfer, Sandrine Durand, Gerhard Hejc:
ACES MWL End-to-End Test, Objectives and Results

Session "Microwave and Optical Techniques for Frequency Transfer"

Ph. Guillemot, E. Samain, P. Exertier, F. Pierron, J.-M. Torre, Ph. Laurent, M. Abgrall, J. Achkar, K. Djeroud, D. Rovera and S. Leon:
T2L2 : Time Transfer by Laser Link Challenges, Results and Lessons Learned

Dirk Piester, Thomas Hobiger and Philippe Baron:
Impact of Dispersion in Troposphere on the ACES Microwave Link

Ivan Prochazka, Jan Kodet and Jan Brinek:
Progress report on the European Laser Timing for ACES

Session "Data Processing for ACES"

F. Meynadier, P. Delva, C. le Poncin-Lafitte, P. Laurent and P. Wolf:
ACES microwave link data analysis and simulation

O. Montenbruck, M. Wermuth and P. Swatschina:
ACES Orbitography
(abstract not yet available)

Anja Schlicht:
The European Laser Timing Experiment (ELT) and Data Centre (ELT-DC)

Session "GNSS Applications"

G. Beyerle, S. Heise, T. Schmidt, F. Zus, J. Beckheinrich, M. Semmling, J. Wickert and A. Helm:
Radio occultation and reflectometry data acquisition and analysis for the ACES/GNSS instrument

C.K. Shum, Joel Johnson, Kuo-Hsin Tseng, Yi Chao, Steve Lowe, Cinzia Zuffada, Carl Wang, Kefei Zhang and Jens Wickert:
Prospects of GNSS Reflectometry Science from the ACES Mission GNSS Receiver onboard the International Space Station

M. Semmling, G. Beyerle, M. Ge, J. Wickert F. Fabra, E. Cardellach, S. Ribo, A. Rius, S. Schön and S. d'Addio:
Interferometric Carrier Observations and the Potential for GNSS-R Altimetry

Session "Future Technologies, Future Missions"

Ivan Prochazka, Jan Kodet, Josef Blazej and Petr Panek:
New technologies for laser time transfer with ps precision and accuracy

J. Wickert, C. Arras, G. Beyerle, M. Ge, F. Flechtner, S.B. Healy, S. Heise, C. Y. Huang, B. Kuo, G. Michalak, N. Jakowski, T. Schmidt, M. Semmling and F. Zus:
Radio occultation with navigation satellites: A potential scientific application for ACES

Pacome Delva:
Applications of Inter-Satellite Links in a GNSS Constellation


Registered Participants (as of 11 October 2011):

Andreas Bauch, PTB, Germany
Jamila Beckheinrich, GFZ, Germany
Georg Beyerle, GFZ, Germany
Wolfgang Bosch, DGFI, Germany
Luigi Cacciapuoti, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
Pacôme Delva, SYRTE - Observatoire de Paris / UPMC, France
Bastian Ewald, EADS Astrium, Germany
Pierre Exertier, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, France
Carsten Falck, GFZ, Germany
Philippe Guillemot, CNES, France
Thomas Gruber, IAPG Munich, Germany
Ludwig Grunwaldt, GFZ, Germany
Achim Helm, EADS Astrium, Germany
Per Høeg, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Wolfgang Köhler, GFZ, Germany
Pierre Lauber, TU München / FS Wettzell, Germany
Oliver Montenbruck, DLR/GSOC, Germany
Frédéric Meynadier, SYRTE - Observatoire de Paris / UPMC, France
Reinhart Neubert, GFZ, Germany
Aum Niranjana Mishra, Technical University Berlin, Germany
Dirk Piester, PTB, Germany
Ivan Prochazka, Technical University Prague, Czech Republic
Christophe Salomon, LKB/ENS Paris, France
Wolfgang Schäfer, TimeTech GmbH, Germany
Ulrich Schreiber, TU München / FS Wettzell, Germany
C. K. Shum, Ohio State University, USA
Anja Schlicht, TU Munich, Germany
Drazen Svehla, ESOC, Germany
Jens Wickert, GFZ, Germany
Guochang Xu, GFZ, Germany
 

Workshop Venue

The workshop will be held on the science campus “Albert Einstein” on the Telegrafenberg in Potsdam. This is a historic location in a park-like setting with several research facilities. The cities of Potsdam and Berlin provide excellent opportunities for excursions in the nearby area.


How to get there?

The Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences has a good connection to the railway service and to the international airports of Berlin. From Berlin there is easy access by public transport. The "Albert Einstein" campus is just a 15-minute walk from the Potsdam Main Train Station.


Accommodation

A block of rooms has been reserved in the Mercure Hotel Potsdam City **** (closest to the conference venue, near the main railway station and within walking distance (20 min) to GFZ):

Mercure Hotel Potsdam City
Lange Bruecke
14467 Potsdam
phone: +49-(0)331-272321
fax: +49-(0)331-293496
email: H1582-RE3@accor.com

Please make your own room reservation. Upon registration you will receive the reservation form (with special room rate!) for the Mercure together with a list and map of all GFZ contract hotels per email.

Please book your room before the booking deadline Sep 30, 2011 (even if the program will not have been finalized at that time; room cancellation is no problem).