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Official account of the International Association of Geodesy #IAG and its Global Geodetic Observing System #GGOS. Explore the #Science of #Geodesy: Measuring #Earth 's #shape, #gravity, and #rotation for a sustainable future.

🌍 Geodesy in Action: GNSS and InSAR Reveal Coseismic Deformation in Venezuela 📌  GEODESY NEWS — ADVANCEMENTS & APPLICATIONS Geodesy in Action: GNSS and InSAR Reveal Coseismic Deformation in Venezuela Hermógenes David Suárez Acosta, Ileanis Arenas Bermúdez Laboratorio de Geodesia Física y Sat...

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🌍 In Memoriam: Professor Byron D. Tapley (1933–2026) 📌  The University of Texas Center for Space Research and an international community mourn the passing of Professor Byron Dean Tapley, who died peacefully at his home in Austin, Texas, on 22 June 2026, at the age of 93, surr... 🔗 Read more – lin

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🌍 Celebrating 160 Years Chair of Higher Geodesy at TU Wien 📌  On June 23, 1866, Josef Herr was appointed the first professor of Higher Geodesy and Spherical Astronomy at TU Wien (Vienna, Austria) by the emperor Franz Joseph I. On that occasion, 160 years later, a homecoming event w... 🔗 Read more

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🌍 TIGER Symposium in Geodesy 2026 - Programme online and early-bird deadline approaching 📌  We would like to inform you that the programme of the TIGER Symposium in Geodesy 2026 is now available online: TIGER 2026 A general overview can be found on the website: Programme In addition, the deadline

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GGOS IberAtlantic has launched a new newsletter and updated its website! Stay informed about geodetic activities, events, collaborations, and opportunities across the Iberian Peninsula and Atlantic region. 🔗 Read more – link in comments 👇

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🌍 GGOS Session at AGU26 – Call for Abstracts 📌  GGOS is pleased to draw attention to the session G007 – GGOS Contribution to Improving the Accuracy, Consistency and Availability of Essential Geodetic Products and Standards for the Earth and the Moon at the AGU Annual ... 🔗 Read more – link in com

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🌍 Geodesy Glossary: A Reference Guide to Geodetic Terminology 📌  Making Geodetic Terminology Easier to Understand Geodesy uses a wide range of specialized terms, abbreviations, concepts, services, products, and methods. For newcomers, professionals from related fields, and even exper... 🔗 Read mo

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🌍 GGHS2026 - 12-16 October 2026 - New Delhi, India 📌  I would like to draw your attention to the Gravity, Geoid and Height Systems 2026 (GGHS-2026) conference, to be held from 12–16 October 2026 in New Delhi, India. GGHS-2026 brings together the international geodetic and g... 🔗 Read more – link

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🌍 FIG Congress 2026 📌   Franck Ghomsi @ FIG Congress 2026   Franck Ghomsi, our early career representative (ECS) of the Inter-Commission Committee on Climate Research (ICCC), attended the recent FIG Congress and represented the IAG ECS gro... 🔗 Read more – link in comments 👇 #Geodesy #EarthScie

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🌍 Meet Jorge Martinez - Early Career Scientist 📌   Jorge Martinez is a Spanish aerospace engineer from northern Spain who completed his bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering in Madrid and later earned a master’s degree in Earth and Space Engineering at T... 🔗 Read more – link in comments 👇

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🌍 IAU Symposium 2027 📌  January 18th – January 22nd, 2027 in Windhoek, Namibia Relativistic jets from active galactic nuclei are among the Universe’s most extreme particle accelerators. Blazars, with jets pointed toward Earth, show dramatic m... 🔗 Read more – link in comments 👇 #Geodesy #EarthS

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🌍 Honorary colloquium for Prof. Torge and Prof. Seeber at Leibniz University Hannover 📌  Honorary colloquium on the occasion of the 95th birthday of Prof. Wolfgang Torge and the 85th birthday of Prof. Günter Seeber at Insitute of Geodesy, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany The keynote lecture "H

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🌍 Webinar: A Synergy between EUREF and EPOS: GNSS Data Quality Monitoring Service (DQMS) 📌  The EPN Central Bureau is pleased to draw your attention to the next event in the EPOS-GNSS 2026 Webinar Series, featuring Fikri Bamahry from the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB): A Synergy between EUREF

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🌍 Geodesy Day - International Webinar on Geodesy 📌  “Every map ever drawn. Every satellite ever launched. Every border ever defined. All rest upon one science… Geodesy” About the Event What if the science that holds our modern world together remains largely invisible... 🔗 Read more – link in co

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🌍 Geodetic Data: Applying FAIR, TRUST and CARE Principles 📌  Geodetic research fundamentally relies on observational data, long-term monitoring, and operational infrastructures spanning decades and national boundaries. In this context, data are not merely by-products of research b... 🔗 Read more

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