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IAG Presidential Address 43 IAG Presidential address 43 The XXVII IUGG General Assembly, Montreal, Canada, 2019 IAG Presidential Address Harald Schuh GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany [email protected] Dear Guests and Colleagues, dear Ladies and Gen- Gerhard Beutler took place in a very open-minded and in- tlemen, tensive atmosphere. Based on the retreat material, a guiding document was I welcome you to the IAG General Assembly, taking place formulated that in turn was the basis for the draft strategy in Montreal on the occasion of the 27th General Assembly document to be discussed and approved at the next EC meet- of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics ing in Vienna on April 28, 2017, and to be presented to the (IUGG). Chairing this Opening Ceremony is one of my last public, in particular to the IAG Council delegates, at the responsibilities as outgoing IAG President. For IAG, the IAG Scientific Assembly in Kobe in July 2017. This long quadrennial 2015-2019 was a really dynamic and fruitful strategic planning process shall be completed here in Mon- period. Together with many individuals of the various IAG treal were the IAG Council delegates will be requested for Commissions, Services, and other components, we have approval of the final version of the strategy document that pushed quite a number of new developments and IAG is in can be found on https://office.iag-aig.org/iag-publications- a very sound condition today. In Prague four years ago, reports-position-papers IAG Strategy 2019. Chris Rizos, then the outgoing President, gave a comprehen- During the first week of August 2016, the United Na- sive overview presentation about the IAG, its internal struc- tions Global Geospatial Information Management (UN- ture and tasks. It is published in the Geodesist’s Handbook GGIM) sixth session took place in New York which I at- 2016 and I encourage you to look there again. My report tended representing the IAG. At this UN-GGIM conference, here I will make rather short and will just remind you of the the UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Infor- most important highlights and innovations since 2015. mation Management endorsed the GGRF (Global Geodetic For the year 2016, internally, I would like to mention our Reference Frame) Roadmap and decided to establish a per- forthcoming in the strategic planning process; in the outer, manent Subcommittee on Geodesy. The suggestion to ele- political sphere, the establishment of the United Nations vate the Working Group's mandate through the establish- Subcommittee on Geodesy was a real breakthrough for ment of a UN-GGIM Subcommittee on Geodesy was put global geodesy. Both developments will help us to shape fu- forward by New Zealand and the proposal was supported by ture IAG matters much more efficiently. several member states. The IAG welcomed and unreserv- The IAG Executive Committee met for its third meeting edly appreciated the establishment of a United Nations Sub- in the term 2015-2019 at the GFZ German Research Centre committee on Geodesy. This advancement will augment the for Geosciences in Potsdam, Germany, on April 25, 2016. impacts of geodesy on the political level as well as its visi- At this meeting, the IAG final structure 2015-2019 of Com- bility in society. IAG and its Global Geodetic Observing missions 1 – 4, of the Inter-Commission Committee on The- System (GGOS) as promoting geodetic science and coordi- ory, and of GGOS was decided. On the next day, an IAG nating the international geodetic services will strongly sup- Strategic Planning Retreat was conducted. It was mainly port the new Subcommittee whenever necessary and wher- aimed at an IAG SWOT analysis and the following discus- ever possible. sion to reveal the current state of the Association. SWOT At the UN-GGIM sixth session in New York, the mem- stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, ber states did also endorse the Roadmap for the Global Ge- and a great number of all of them were identified during the retreat. The retreat which was chaired by IAG Past President 44 The Geodesist’s Handbook 2020 odetic Reference Frame as a principle based briefing docu- new twin VLBI telescopes at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Nor- ment for national governments. The Roadmap aims to en- way, on June 6th, 2018, the UN-GGIM conference week hance the GGRF and make it more sustainable. Today, the with several splinter meetings about the GGRF in New York UN-GGIM Subcommittee on Geodesy consists of about 40 in August 2018, and two very efficient IAG Executive Com- member states and five international and national organiza- mittee meetings, the first one in Vienna, Austria, during the tions: besides IAG, they are the International Federation of EGU General Assembly on April 13, 2018 and the second Surveyors (FIG), SIRGAS Geocentric Reference System for one in Washington D.C., USA, during the AGU Fall Meet- the Americas, the World Health Organization (WHO), and ing on December 10, 2018. NASA. At the Eighth Session of the United Nations Committee IAG developed a Position Paper that contains a descrip- of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management tion of the Global Geodetic Reference Frame and was (UN-GGIM) held at the United Nations Headquarters in adopted by the IAG Executive Committee in April 2016. New York from 1 to 3 August 2018, the Roadmap for the The purpose of this document is a brief description of the Global Geodetic Reference Frame for Sustainable Develop- GGRF key components as a realization of the Global Geo- ment Implementation Plan presented by the UN-GGIM Sub- detic Reference System (GGRS) and it forms the basis for a committee on Geodesy was discussed. IAG is participating common understanding of the GGRF. It thus outlines the as an observer in all meetings and related activities of UN- IAG’s perspective of what the GGRF is, and how it is real- GGIM. At the session, IAG was represented by myself and ized through the contributions of the IAG components. Michael Pearlman, Chair of the GGOS Bureau of Networks The Position Paper on the UN-GGIM Global Geodetic and Observations. The IAG delegation made a well-noted Reference Frame (GGRF) adopted by the IAG Executive intervention for the GGRF agenda item, comprising the fol- Committee can be downloaded from https://office.iag- lowing points: aig.org/iag-publications-reports-position-papers De- The International Association of Geodesy commends scription of the Global Geodetic Reference Frame (GGRF) the work done by the UN GGIM Subcommittee on Geod- by the IAG. esy, and emphasizes that the Roadmap Implementation In November 2016, at a meeting with the Springer pub- Plan is an important building block to determining a lishing editor responsible for the IAG Series an important sustainable Global Geodetic Reference Frame. improvement regarding the IAG Symposia Series published Together with its geodetic services, IAG encourages by Springer was decided: The Series will be published im- modernization of geodetic infrastructure, as well as de- mediately as eBook, i.e. go online. The procedure is a peer velopment of Core Observatories, especially in develop- review as before, but each article is being published online ing regions. a few days after the acceptance by the IAG Editor-in-Chief IAG notes that there is a clear need for strengthened Jeff Freymueller. intergovernmental mechanisms in support of global ge- IAG’s top highlight of the year 2017 was the organiza- odesy, and notes with appreciation the Subcommittee on tion and effective running of the IAG/IASPEI Joint Scien- Geodesy’s efforts to provide this through a Convention tific Assembly in Kobe, Japan, from July 30 through August or other possible governance mechanisms mentioned in 4, 2017. The business meetings during the IAG Scientific the Position Paper on Governance. Assembly in Kobe comprised in particular three IAG Exec- IAG encourages the establishment of funding mech- utive Committee Meetings, one IAG Bureau Meeting, and anisms for global geodesy, in order to support geodetic one IAG Council Meeting, and all went very efficiently. The infrastructure and education in developing Member EC’s decision to establish new sub-components of IAG States. IAG further notes that such funding will provide Commissions as inter-Association commissions, namely on a means to strengthen the GGRF overall, as well as help Volcano-geodesy, Seismo-geodesy, and Cryosphere geod- realize the geodetic contributions to the UN Sustainable esy, and to establish the two new inter-Commission projects Development Goals and Sendai Framework for Disaster of IAG (on New technologies in geodesy and on Marine ge- Risk Reduction. odesy) were very timely. Four years ago, at our General Assembly in Prague, I Of the many IAG highlights of the year 2018, I would presented to you in my inaugural speech as IAG President like to mention here only a tiny selection, in which I had the the vision, or call it dream or crazy idea, to establish a World honor to participate: These are the successful launch of the Geodetic Organization (WGO) to implement geodetic infra- German-American satellite mission GRACE-FO (Gravity structure all over the world where it is really needed. That Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On) aboard a vision is not a dream anymore: In 2019, a Global Geodetic SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Center of Excellence (GGCE) is in planning process under Base (California) on May 22, 2018, the inauguration of the IAG Presidential address 45 UN-GGIM. The proposal of creating a GGCE under the aus- increased significantly (IF 4.633 (2017) and 4.528 (2018)). pices of the United Nations receives strong support. With The journal receives more than 300 submissions per year; this element, the Subcommittee on Geodesy has reached a the acceptance rate is 34%.
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