Project 31 Quebec Workshop

Program

Friday 27 Oct

Session 1: Opening
• 9:00 - Opening : Welcome Words (GEOIDE); organization information (Santerre); meeting objectives (Santos)
• 9:15 - Project Status (Santos and Pagiatakis): review project proposal; Where we are after 2 years with respect to proposal?; What should we focus for the next 2 years?; Should we restate project objectives? Can we accomplish more with additional PIs?
• 10:00 - Break

Session 2: Status on PIs Research (research itself and publications so far)
• 10:15 - Each PI will describe the work done so far (~15 minute presentations).
  * UNB: Marcelo/Richard - simulators (Spirent, GSSF, UofC) and receivers
  * UNB: Liliana - tests on the L2C
  * UNB: Rodrigo - UNBw and WAPPP
  
• 12:00 - Lunch break
• 13:00 - Resume Session 2
  * UNB: Felipe - NWP
  * Laval: Simon Banville/Rock Santerre - PPP software development
  * Laval: Marc Cocard/Mohammed Boukhecha - GNSS simulation results for ambiguity resolution
  * Ryerson: Ahmed/Hamad - Precise orbit interpolation / orbit prediction
  * York: Spiros/Sunil Bisnath - Activities at York
  * GSD: Paul Collins - GSD activities
  
• 15:00 - Break
• 15:15 - Follow-up discussions on Session 2. Is our work following the same path as described in the proposal? Where are we strong? Where are we weak? What can be done to maximize our strengths and reinforce our weaknesses? What can we do to foster more collaboration? Let us make a publication plan!
• *** At the end of this day we must have a clear idea on where we are and where we are heading to. We should also have publication plan.
• Friday PM (just before the dinner) visit of the GPS Laboratory.

Saturday 28 Oct

• 9:00 - Visit to the Centre for Research in Geomatics (CRG) and the GEOIDE Office

Session 3: Update Project Objectives
• (9:45) This session is intended to build a revised project plan. I think we need to have a more realistic one. We are working on a project that was proposed four years ago. I think we must revise our project so that we have more realistic targets. Would there be capability to shuffle some money around to support more PIs?
• ** At the end of this session we must have a revised project plan, with clear and realistic targets and deliverables.
• 12:00 - Lunch

Session 4: Where do we want to be for Phase 4?
• (13:00) Call for Phase 4 is "just around the corner". Our success with this project will be essential for our future applications. In any case, can we start planning what phase 4 proposal(s) would be?
• ** At the end of this session we must have plan(s) looking beyond our current project.
• 16:00 - Closing and farewell