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The Power of Where

Every day, humanity benefits from geodesy. An amazing panel of speakers presented the benefits of geodesy to society in a virtual open forum.
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GGOS Event Update

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of very interesting geodetic events take place this year. GGOS contributes at large conferences with own sessions or organize it's own conference (GGOS Days). Please have a look at and save the dates of the…
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New Height of Mount Everest

The new height of the Mount Everest refers to the International Height Reference System (IHRS), a major enterprise of GGOS.
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Mission Earth

Tracking down Geodynamics and Climate Change with Satellite Geodesy. This book aims at interested nonprofessionals who want to learn more about our fascinating planet, but also at experts in natural sciences.
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New GGOS website launched

IAG's Global Geodetic Observing System works together with the IAG Components – technical services, commissions, inter-commission-committees and IAG-projects – for monitoring the Earth system and global change research. GGOS has launched its new website at www.ggos.org, where you can read how geodesy and geodetic observations can contribute to the deeper understanding of our living planet, the Earth!
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New GGOS Website

From time to time it is necessary to redesign a website. The old GGOS website was developed in 2016. In the end of 2019, the redesign process started and it is now time to launch the completely new GGOS website with a lot of enhanced features…
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A Brief History of Geodesy

Geodesy is a field of study that deals with the measurement and representation of the Earth, and it all started when a clever human ...
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AGU 2020 – GGOS Session

This year the AGU Fall Meeting 2020 will be held as an virtual conference due to travel restrictions by Coronavirus. AGU2020 is scheduled from 1-17 December. GGOS Session This year the GGOS Session will be held online. The title of this session…
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GGOS Days 2020

GGOS Days is the annual meeting of GGOS during which the different components of GGOS meet and report on their activities during the past year and their plans for the coming year. In October 2020 the GGOS Days 2020 took place as an 3 days video…
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In Memoriam – Günter Stangl

We received the deeply sad news that Günter Stangl - former Director of GGOS Coordinating Office from 2016 to 2017 - passed away, unexpected, much too early in the first years of his retirement in the age of 68 years. Günter Stangl started…