Annual Meeting Masala
May 3-4, 2005


Finnish Geodetic Institute
Masala



Definitive Program, last updated May 4, 23:00
File last updated (adding links) June 10
Time
Title
Remarks
Tuesday May 3
11
Opening
Appointing a secretary
(Martin Lidberg will not participate!)

11-12

Institute Reports



KMS / Danish National Space Center - Gabriel Strykowski


FGI, Finland - Jaakko Mäkinen


UMB Ås, Norway - Bjørn Ragnvald Pettersen


National Land Survey, Sweden  (Text) | (Map) - Andreas Engfeldt


Chalmers, Onsala Space Observatory - H-G Scherneck




Lunch

13:30-


Scientific presentations


Reinhard Falk
Latest experiences with the redesigned A10 absolute gravimeter

20 min

Hannu Ruotsalainen
Gravimeter calibration results from the Masala - Vihti line

20 min

Tõnis Oja
Gravity work in Estonia

20 min

Petras Petroskevicius, Romuald Obuchovski, Arunas Buga.
Lithuanian Gravimetric Network

20 min
Coffee break

15:55-
Ludger Timmen, Olga Gitlein
Results of the IfE absolute gravity campaigns in 2004

20 min

Olga Gitlein, Ludger Timmen
Comparisons of absolute gravity between measurements in 2003 and 2004

20 min

Ludger Timmen
The superiority of Scintrex relative gravimeters

20 min

Heiner Denker
Static and time-variable gravity field from GRACE


20 min

Wednesday May 4
9:00-


Scientific presentations cont'd


Reinhard Falk:
Wilmes et al.,
Fennoscandian Uplift Observed with Absolute Gravity Measurements in the Period 1991 to 2003

Poster+oral
10 min

Ove Christian Dahl Omang, Börn R. Pettersen:
Pettersen et. al.,
Accuracy Assessment of Absolute Gravity Control in Fennoscandia

Poster+oral
10 min

Heikki Virtanen, Mirjam Bilker et al.:
Comparison of modelled variation in water storage in Finland with
superconducting gravimeter observations and GRACE

Poster+oral
10 min

Hannu Koivula et al.:
Geodetic monitoring of crustal deformation in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica
Poster+oral
10 min

Mirjam Bilker, Jaakko Mäkinen, Heikki Virtanen et al.:
Time series of gravity in Finland
Poster+oral
10 min

Hans-Georg Scherneck:
Martin Lidberg, Jan Johansson et al.


20 min


Absolute Gravity, Stations and Campaigns, planning


Björn R. Pettersen,Ludger Timmen 
Reviving absolute gravimetry in Hammerfest, Norway


Björn Engen
New station preparation in northern Norway


Jaakko Mäkinen and Hannu Ruotsalainen:
Future of relative lines


Jaakko Mäkinen et al.:
FGI 2005 plans


more: 2005 campaigns

2006- campaigns


List of necessary developments and investments
 - Ground water monitoring and/or modelling
 - Excenter points
 - Platforms for A10 and the future of the relative gravity lines
 - An A10 acquisition
 - A superconducting gravimeter


Renewal of documents:
- AG-Plan
- Campaign data base Excel | PDF
- NGOS, our input to the final version (Markku Poutanen)Renewal of documents:


On funding opportunities (Markku Poutanen)

NKG <-> WGG business matters


Extract of NKG Presidium Meeting Nov. 2004 in Masala, pdf file

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