GGOS-D Data Management – From Data to Knowledge

The main objective within the Joint Project “Integration of Space Geodetic Techniques as the Basis for a Global Geodetic-Geophysical Observing System (GGOS-D)” is the investigation of the technological, methodological, and IT-based realization of a global geodetic-geophysical observing system. The main emphasis is put on the development and implementation of the systems for data acquisition and transfer as well as the generation of consistent and integrated geodetically observed time series. Because the generation of such time series is embedded in a highly complex system of measuring and processing procedures the contributions for the data and information system of GGOS-D play a central role to coordinate the data and information flow between the project partners as well as to guarantee the documentation and availability of standardized and consistent data series and to provide high level tools to work with the data. The proposal of the BKG “IT Contributions to the Realization of an Operational Global Geodetic-Geophysical Observing System” takes care of this central role of the data and information system within GGOS-D.