Tour de l’IGS 4th Stop: BDS Constellation Spotlight

For presentations and videos from this event, visit the Tour de l’IGS Presentations.

What is the Tour of the l’IGS?

The Tour de l’IGS is a series of virtual workshops on relevant topics to the IGS membership, stakeholders and GNSS community in general. These events will be hosted several times a year and will cover a wide range of topics including space-borne and ground-based instrumentation, technology development, scientific and societal applications, etc.

The 4th stop focuses on the latest progress of the BDS constellation. BDS is actively promoting international cooperation in an all-around way. In the 4th Tour de l’IGS, GNSS users could know the special services provided by BDS, including high-precision PPP-B2b service and Short Message Communication. These two presentations will be made by Dr. Jun Lu from China Satellite Navigation Project Center and Prof. Xiangwei Zhu from Sun Yat-Sen University. Dr. Xiaogong Hu from Shanghai Astronomical Observatory and Dr. Jing Guo from Wuhan University will introduce BDS broadcast ephemeris and official BDS satellite antenna phase centers, respectively. Moreover, Prof. Oliver Montenbruck from Technische Universität München will show some latest analyses of BDS orbits and clocks, and Prof. Tom Herring from MIT will offer the BDS network analysis in GAMIT. This 4th stop will provide information on BDS featured services, BDS data usage, and the performance of BDS data processing.

(IGS Scientific Organizing Committee for this event: Jianghui Geng and Qile Zhao, Wuhan University)

Where is the event?

Virtually, in an around-the-world clock format.  The event will take place on 27 September 2022 at 12:00 – 14:30 UTC. Please use the calendar links below to add this event to your calendar or use the calendar links in your Zoom registration confirmation email.

How do I participate?

Registration is now closed.  We will be using Zoom as the platform for the workshops. Registration is required and limited to 300 participants to ensure accountability and accessibility to online resources. Participants will obtain the meeting link upon completion of the registration.