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| Introduction |
| Opening of the Workshop and Welcome to IOC |
Colin Summerhayes (IOC) |
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| PART I: Tide gauge technologies |
| Acoustic gauges: |
| Experience with Sonar Research & Development (SRD) acoustic gauges in Spain |
Begona Perez (Puertos del Estado, Spain) |
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| Experience with SRD gauges and why we swapped to radar gauges |
Ruth Farre (Hydrographic Office, South Africa) |
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| Pressure gauges: |
| Pressure transducer gauges |
Dov Rosen (IOLR, Israel) |
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| S. Atlantic 'B gauges' |
Simon Holgate (POL, UK) |
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| Pressure gauge experiments in India and Ghana deployments |
Antony Joseph (NIO, India) |
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| Experience in Chile with Handar pressure gauges |
Juan Fierro (SHOA, Chile) |
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| Radar gauges: |
| Comparative test of a bubbler and Ott Kalesto radar gauge at Liverpool |
Philip Woodworth (POL, UK) |
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| Comparison of a radar and float gauge at Haifa |
Boris Shirman (SOI, Israel) |
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| Comparative tests with radar, acoustic and float gauges at Brest and Le Conquet |
Ronan Le Roy (SHOM, France) |
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| Test of the Miros SM-094 sensor at NOAA |
Mark Bushnell (NOAA, USA) |
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| Experience with the Vega radar gauge on a buoy |
Lutz Eberlein (Technical University of Dresden) |
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| Float gauges: |
| Cost effective ways of providing digital data from float gauges |
Daniel Hareide (Norwegian Hydrographic Service) |
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| Digilevel gauge: |
| A report of the Digilevel gauge in Brazil |
Marcelo Fricks Cavalcante (DHN, Brazil) |
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| Comparison experiments: |
| Comparisons of several technologies at the Spanish test site |
Belen Martin (Puertos del Estado, Spain) |
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| Comparisons of gauges in Germany |
Christoph Blasi (BfAG, Germany) |
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| Data loggers (Sutron, Vitel ...) and real time transmission methods: (Orbcomm, Iridium, modems) |
David Meldrum (SAMS, UK) with input from Peter Foden (POL, UK) |
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| On line quality control software: |
| Display software for harbour unit |
Dov Rosen (IOLR, Israel) |
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| 'Special Needs' statements: |
| Needs of GLOSS - GLOSS Adequacy Report and need for 'plug and play', 'turn key GLOSS packages' comprising gauge, DCP, met station etc. (Also review of GCOS Adequacy report including GPS@TG, reinforcement of regional networks etc.) |
Thorkild Aarup (IOC) |
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| Special needs of 'hostile regions' (i.e. polar regions): Pressure gauges in Kergulen, Crozet, St Paul and Dumont d'Urville |
Laurent Testut (LEGOS, France) |
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| Needs of IHO/IALA |
Steve Shipman (IHO) with input from Jillian Carson-Jackson (IALA) |
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| Needs of Tsunami Warning System - Gaps and improvement of the Tsunami sea-level network in the Pacific Region |
F. Schindele (Chair IOC/ITSU) |
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| Comments from COOP |
Keith Thompson (Dalhousie University, Canada) |
(61 KB) |
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| Short presentations by invited manufacturers: |
| OTT Hydrometry |
Simon Wills |
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| Miros SM-094 Range Finder gauge (Presentation of sensor, principles of design and associated software. References on past, present and foreseen uses) |
Rune Gangeskar |
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| Aanderaa |
Anders Tengberg |
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| PART II: Geodetic developments |
| Overview of issues relating to the measurement of vertical land movements at tide gauges |
Hans-Peter Plag (NMA, Norway) |
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| GPS time series and reference frame issues |
Zuheir Altamimi (IGN, France) |
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| Status of GPS networks near to tide gauges and the IGS TIGA and ESEAS data archives |
Guy Woppelmann (Univ. of La Rochelle, France) |
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| Developments with AG |
Simon Williams (POL, UK) |
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| Experiments at Brest on GPS, tide gauges and AG |
Marie-Francoise Lalancette (SHOM, France) |
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| Developments with DORIS |
Laurent Soudarin and Jean-Francois Cretaux (CNES, France) |
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| Developments in satellite altimetry calibration (ALT) |
Gary Mitchum (Univ. South Florida, USA) |
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| Multiple RA calibration over Lake Erie and S. Pacific |
C K Shum (OSU, USA) |
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| The new Italian tide gauges |
Gabriele Nardone (APAT) |
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| PART III: QC and data centre developments |
| An automatic acquisition/quality control/fast delivery software for real time acquisition of the data coming from the ROSAME network (Sao Tome) |
Philippe Techine (LEGOS) |
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| JCOMM OPS (in situ Observing Platform Support) Centre in Toulouse |
Etienne Charpentier |
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| GLOSS delayed-mode and archive centre (i.e. BODC/PSMSL) |
Elizabeth Bradshaw |
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| Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) |
Philip Woodworth |
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| CPACC/RONMAC |
Shelley-Ann Jules-Moore |
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| Puerto del Estado (Spain) Sea Level Software |
Begona Perez |
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| ESEAS project (European Sea Level Service) |
Maria-Jesus Garcia |
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