Towards a Roadmap for Future Satellite Gravity Missions September 30 - October 2, 2009, Graz, Austria

Objectives of the workshop: The workshop aimed at bringing together stakeholders in satellite gravity missions in order to establish a roadmap for future gravity satellite missions that would outline the sensor developments, mission concept developments, and mission implementation, and that would be consistent with anticipations of the major space agencies, CEOS, and GEO, and with the needs of key user groups (such as IGWCO, the GEO Water Tasks, GOOS and GCOS, Earth scientists, and GGOS itself).

In 2007, an international workshop on The Future of Satellite Gravimetry was held (see the Workshop Report) and attended by about 50 leading scientists representing relevant fields of science and technology. The participants agreed on a set of recommendations, which provided the starting point for the roadmap.