GGOS Japan: Uniting Space Geodetic Activities in Japan
- 1Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Japan (t.otsubo@r.hit-u.ac.jp)
- 2Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, Tsukuba, Japan
- 3University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- 4Japan Coast Guard, Tokyo, Japan
- 5Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
- 6National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Japan
- 7Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- 8National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Mizusawa, Japan
- 9National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Koganei, Japan
Since the establishment in 2013, GGOS Japan, formerly known as GGOS Working Group of Japan, has actively contributed to domestic and international space-geodetic activities. Until it was established, six Japanese agencies with their own backgrounds and missions had individually conducted geodetic observations of GNSS, VLBI, SLR, DORIS and gravimetry in Japan and Antarctica. GGOS Japan was established to strengthen the collaboration between the agencies and to get connected to international organizations such as IAG and GGOS.
Its core members consist of a chair, a secretary, a lead of the outreach working group, a lead of the DOI working group and representatives of five core techniques. It is supported by tens of people in Japan and also by its parent entity, IAG subcommittee in Japan.
This presentation will cover our achievement such as assembling our site list, hosting various domestic/international meetings, planning a special issue in a domestic journal, producing its leaflet and website and so on. Since 2017 it has been approved as an GGOS Affiliate and it is remarkable that Basara Miyahara was elected as GGOS President in 2019.
How to cite: Otsubo, T., Miyahara, B., Yokota, Y., Kurihara, S., Munekane, H., Watanabe, S., Miyazaki, T., Takiguchi, H., Aoyama, Y., Doi, K., Fukuda, Y., Matsuo, K., Jike, T., Matsumoto, T., and Ichikawa, R.: GGOS Japan: Uniting Space Geodetic Activities in Japan, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-3244, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-3244, 2020.