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Note: International Association of Geodesy Symposia -- Editor's page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Symposium Programme -- Minutes of the Plenary Discussion -- Participants -- Position Papers -- Importance of a Common Framework for the Realization of Space-Time Reference Systems -- The Use of a Precise Reference Frame in Sea Level Change Studies -- Combination of Space Techniques into one Integrated Processing Model -- Towards an Integrated Global Reference System: Geodesy as a Utility -- Space Techniques and their Coordination within IAG at Present and in Future -- Contributions of VLBI to Space Geodesy -- Towards an Integrated Global Geodetic Observing System -- Envisaging a new era of gravity field research -- Status of the CHAMP Mission -- Satellite Gravity Gradiometry with GOCE -- Integration of geodetic techniques into a global Earth monitoring system and its implication for Earth system sciences -- The Integration of Geodetic Measurements into an Earth Science Observing Program: The Example of Glacial Rebound -- Posters - Session A Reference System and Datum Integration -- Quality Analysis of Some IGS Weekly Combined Solutions with Respect to ITRF -- Geosat and ERS-1 Datum Offsets Relative to Topex/Poseidon Estimated Simultaneously with Geopotential Corrections from Multi-Satellite Crossover Altimetry -- The Integration of Brazilian Geodetic Network into SIRGAS - Preliminary Results - -- Construction of the New Japan Datum Using Space Geodetic Technologies -- Deviation of Japanese Vertical Datum and Reference Surface with Respect to the Global Geoid -- Reference Systems Used in Global Navigation Satellite Systems -- Recent Contribution to the ITRF and its Realization in Canada -- Realization and Unification of NAD83 in Canada and the U.S. via the ITRF -- Geodetic Datum Defnition of the SAGA Network. , Weak Gravitational Lensing and Instability of the Celestial Reference Frame -- Height Time Series of the Italian GPS Fiducial Network compared with VLBI and SLR Estimations -- Monitoring the Continental Reference Frame in South America -- World Geodetic Datum 2000 -- Posters - Session B Strengths and Weaknesses of Space Techniques -- Validation of TOPEX/POSEIDON Measurements in the Southern Baltic Sea -- DORIS : Contribution of an Orbit Determination System to Accurate and Long Term Altimetry from Space -- IGS Combinations of Polar Motion, Length of Day and Universal Time -- Comparison of Site Velocities Measured by VLBI and GPS in the Key Stone Project Network -- Large Lunar Laser Ranging at its Best -- Combining GPS and CCD to Modernise Astronomical Levelling -- Orbit Modelling Based on Laser and CCD-Observations -- Unification of the GPS Work in Egypt -- Earth Orientation Parameters Measured by Space Geodesy Techniques -- New Method for the Selection of Additional Sites for the Homogenisation of an Inhomogeneous Cospherical Point Distribution -- Westford VLBI to GPS Vertical Tie and Implications for the TRF -- Posters - Session C Upcoming Gravity Field Satellite Missions -- Impact of terrestrial data on future satellite gravity field solutions -- SAGE: An Italian Project of Satellite Accelerometry -- Accelerometry Aboard CHAMP -- Simulation of the GOCE Gravity Field Mission -- Fundamentals and Applications of the Gravity Field Mission GOCE -- Effects of Inhomogeneous Data Coverage on Spectral Analysis -- Geodetic Applications of the ROCSAT-3/COSMIC Mission -- Estimation of Ocean Mass Redistribution by Means of Altimetry and Circulation Models and its Impact on the Gravity Field -- GFZ and DLR Contribution to a GPS Ground Network to Support the CHAMP Mission. , The ESA Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer Mission: Impact on Solid Earth Physics -- Posters - Session D Implication for Earth Sciences -- The Regular Character of the Plate Motion: Implication for Earth Sciences -- About Global Rotation of the Lithosphere -- Least Squares Collocation Method for Space Geodetic Data Analysis -- BIFROST Project: Studies of Variations of Absolute Sea Level in Conjunction With the Postglacial Rebound of Fennoscandia -- The Indonesian Gravity Field and the Geoid Model -- ISRO Initiatives for Space Geodesy and Geodynamics in India -- A Sketch towards an Integrated Global Geodetic Observing System (IGGOS) -- Global Integrated Geodetic and Geodynamic Observing System (GIGGOS) -- Authors' Index.