The Web Pages under the URL www.iag-ggos.org are designed, maintained, and hosted as an information source on geodesy and the global geodetic observing system. Time is invested in these pages for the following reason: Mitigation and adaptation of many of the key problems of humanity including climate change, sea level rise, water supply, and geohazards have to be informed by sufficient Earth observations. Geodetic observations relate to changes in the Earth's surface, gravity field, and rotation. These changes are directly related to mass transport in the global water cycle, changes in the dynamics of the Earth system, and processes leading to geohazards. Therefore, geodesy has an important contribution to make in addressing these issue with informed decisions.
The Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) can provide a significant contribution and enable the use of global geodesy for the benefit of humanity, if focus is on societally relevant issues. These pages make an effort to inform GGOS about these issues, and, at the same time, to inform those involved in the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) about the potential contribution of GGOS.
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