Task Forces (TF)

At the October 2007 meeting of the ILRS Governing Board, the board decided to create two Task Forces to address concerns expressed during the 2007 Fall Workshop in Grasse:

1. Inadequate two-way communication between the stations and the analysis centers to provide (a) unambiguous, timely reports to the stations regarding data quality and bias information, and (b) timely reports to the analysis centers on configuration changes and other events that could affect system biases.
   
   A task force was set up with Mark Torrence (lead), Erricos Pavlis, Mike Pearlman, Geog Kirchner and Werner Gurtner to provide a plan for discussion by the 2007 Fall AGU in San Francisco on how to address the communications issue. Recent activities:
• Meeting on 10/30/2007 (notes PDF)
• Meeting on 12/10/2007
  
  
2. Large uncertainties in the spacecraft center of mass offsets, with particular concern on the geodynamic satellites.
   
   A task force was set up with Graham Appleby (lead), Toshi Otsubo, George Kirchner Mike Pearlman, and Dave Arnold to provide a plan for discussion at the fall 2007 AGU on how we should improve the precise computation of the spacecraft CoM offsets for given station-s/c configurations.

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