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Since 2001, the IERS Central Bureau (CB) is hosted and
funded by Bundesamt für Kartographie and Geodäsie
(BKG). It organizes and documents the IERS Directing
Board Meetings and coordinates the work of IERS in
general. The IERS CB organized IERS Workshops on site
co-location (Matera, Italy, 23-24 October 2003), on the
IERS Combination Pilot Project (Napa, CA, USA, 11
December 2004), on Combination (Potsdam, Germany, 10-
11 October 2005), and on Global Geophysical Fluids (San
Francisco, CA, USA, 6-7 December 2006). The CB
publishes and distributes IERS Technical Notes, IERS
Annual Reports, and IERS Messages. For this, a user
database with about 3000 addresses is being maintained.
The CB maintains the dynamic and database-driven IERS
Data and Information System to coordinate and organize
the data and information flow between the participating
institutions and the users of the IERS. The system presents
information related to the IERS and the topics of Earth
rotation and reference systems and archives all products
of the various IERS Product Centres. As the central access
point to these products it provides tools for search within
the products (data and publications), to work with the
products and to download the products.
The IERS Data and Information System has been developed
at BKG in the framework of the Geotechnologien project
“Integration of space geodetic techniques and development
of a user centre for the IERS”. It is the basis for the
development and implementation of a German contribution
to the “Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS)”
realising a central interface to transfer information between
the highly complicated system of measurement and analysis
procedures and the users. In the follow-on Geotechnologien
project “Integration of Space Geodetic Techniques as the
Basis for a Global Geodetic-Geophysical Observing System
(GGOS-D)” the system is being extended to permit the
exchange and the near real-time provision of data and
products of a global observing system.
Within the DFG Research Unit “Earth Rotation and Global
Dynamic Processes” an “Earth Rotation Information System
(ERIS)” is being developed at BKG. ERIS will be the
interface for all projects involved in this research unit as
central information, communication and database system.
As a virtual Earth rotation system for geodetic and geoscience
applications ERIS will organize a software package
to describe and visualise the rotation of the system Earth
based on the state of the art models and the combination
International Earth Rotation
and Reference Systems Service (IERS)
B. RICHTER 1
of the various models describing the single components
affecting the Earth rotation.
Publications
1 Bernd Richter: Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie / Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG), Referat G1 "Grundsatz
und globale Referenzsysteme", Richard-Strauss-Allee 11, D - 60598 Frankfurt a.M., Germany, Tel. +49 - 69 - 6333-273,
Fax +49 - 69 - 6314-905-20, e-mail bernd.richter@bkg.bund.de
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DICK W. R., RICHTER B. (Eds.): IERS Annual Report 2002.
Frankfurt am Main: Verlag des Bundesamts für Kartographie
und Geodäsie, 2003. 132 p.
DICK W. R., RICHTER B.: The International Earth Rotation and
Reference Systems Service (IERS). In: A. Heck (ed.),
Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy, Vol. 5. (Astrophysics
and Space Science Library; vol. 310) Dordrecht,
Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, p.
159-168.
DICK W. R., RICHTER B. (Eds.): IERS Annual Report 2003.
Frankfurt am Main: Verlag des Bundesamts für Kartographie
und Geodäsie, 2004. 163 p.
DICK W. R., RICHTER B. (Eds.): IERS Annual Report 2004.
Frankfurt am Main: Verlag des Bundesamts für Kartographie
und Geodäsie, 2006. 152 p.
DICK W. R., RICHTER B., SCHWEGMANN W.: The ICRS and the
IERS information system. In: O. Engvold (ed.), Highlights
of Astronomy, Vol. 13, as presented at the XXVth General
Assembly of the IAU – 2003. San Francisco, CA: Astronomical
Society of the Pacific, 2005, p. 609
RICHTER B., SCHWEGMANN W., DICK W. R. (Eds.): Proceedings
of the IERS Workshop on Combination Research and Global
Geophysical Fluids. Bavarian Academy of Sciences,
Munich, Germany, 18-21 November 2002. (IERS Technical
Note; No. 30) Frankfurt am Main: Verlag des Bundesamts
für Kartographie und Geodäsie, 2003. 235 p.
RICHTER B., SCHWEGMANN W.: Development of an Information
and Database System for the IERS, Status and Outlook. In:
Geotechnologien Science Report, Rudloff, A., Stroink, L.
(Eds.), 2003, 3, p. 156-160. (Koordinationsbüro Geotechnologien,
Potsdam. 1619-7399)
RICHTER B., SCHWEGMANN W., DICK W. R. (Eds.): Proceedings
of the IERS Workshop on site co-location. Matera, Italy, 23-
24 October 2003. (IERS Technical Note; No. 33) Frankfurt
am Main: Verlag des Bundesamts für Kartographie und
Geodäsie, 2005. 148 p.
RICHTER B., SCHWEGMANN W.; DICK W. R.: Development of an
Information and Database System for the IERS: Status and
outlook. In: Journal of Geodynamics 40 (2005), p. 487-493.
RICHTER B., SCHWEGMANN W.: IERS Data and Information
System. In: J. Flury, R. Rummel, Ch. Reigber, M. Rothacher,
G. Boedeker, U. Schreiber (Eds.), Observation of the Earth
System from Space. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag,
2006, p. 321-332.