U22A:
Nowhere to Hide: The Explosion of Geodesy and Its Ongoing Transformation of the Earth Sciences

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Session ID#: 8588

Session Description:
Although geodesy is one of the oldest disciplines in the earth sciences, it has been reinvented over the past two decades with the advent of the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and new techniques for rapid surface mapping (Lidar, InSAR).  Satellite gravity and altimetry measurements have in turn created a new paradigm for observing Earth’s changing shape and gravity field.  Geodetic instruments and techniques are also increasingly important to applications in other Earth science disciplines and beyond.  For example, GNSS is now used as a sensor for observing soil moisture, the ionosphere, and atmospheric water vapor, and is being leveraged for use in earthquake/tsunami early warning, surveying, and precision navigation. Geodetic measurements are moving relentlessly toward increasing resolution, higher accuracy, and more rapid acquisition.  This session will explore how advances in geodetic techniques have transformed the earth sciences and will continue to shape both science and society in the future.
Primary Convener:  Adrian A Borsa, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
Convener:  R Steven Nerem, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  R Steven Nerem, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Adrian A Borsa, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Adrian A Borsa, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
Index Terms:

1225 Global change from geodesy [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
1240 Satellite geodesy: results [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
1294 Instruments and techniques [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
1299 General or miscellaneous [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

GPS Imaging of Solid Earth's Flex and Flow: A New Paradigm (Invited) (59359)
Geoffrey Blewitt, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, United States; University of Nevada Reno, Nevada Geodetic Laboratory, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, and Nevada Seismological Laboratory, Reno, NV, United States, William C Hammond, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada Geodetic Laboratory, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, NV, United States and Corne Kreemer, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada - Reno, Reno, NV, United States
Development of a GNSS-Enhanced Tsunami Early Warning System (Invited) (60773)
Gerald W Bawden, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Timothy Ian Melbourne, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA, United States, Yehuda Bock, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, La Jolla, United States, Yuhe T Song, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Attila Komjathy, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Vegetation, smegetation: How InSAR research on tectonics and land surface change has expanded from the deserts to the rain forests and beyond. (Invited) (63671)
Rowena B Lohman, Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States
POST-EARTHQUAKE GEOLOGY IN THE ERA OF UBIQUITOUS POINT CLOUDS (Invited) (68524)
Michael E Oskin1, Ramon Arrowsmith2, Edwin Nissen3, Alexander E Morelan III1, Charles Cashman Trexler1, Peter O Gold4, Austin J Elliott5, Christopher J Crosby6 and Louise H Kellogg7, (1)University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, (2)Arizona State University, EarthScope National Office, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada, (4)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (5)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (6)UNAVCO, Inc. Boulder, Boulder, United States, (7)University of California - Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States
New Radar Altimeter Missions are Providing a Dramatically Sharper Image of Global Marine Tectonics (Invited) (79828)
David T Sandwell1, Dietmar Müller2, Emmanuel Garcia1, Kara J Matthews3, Walter H F Smith4, Edward D. Zaron5, Shengjun Zhang6, Dan Bassett1 and Richard Francis7, (1)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (3)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (4)NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (5)Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States, (6)Northeastern University, School of Resources and Civil Engineering, Boston, MA, United States, (7)ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
An Ocean Science Revolution: 23 Years of Precision Altimetry (Invited) (60959)
Josh K Willis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
GRACE: Providing A New View of the Earth (Invited) (82522)
Michael M Watkins, University of Texas at Austin, Center for Space Research, Austin, TX, United States; Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
The Vital Contributions of Geodesy to our Understanding of the Ice Sheets of Antarctica and Greenland (Invited) (80480)
Helen Amanda Fricker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States

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