DGFI Analysis Center Annual Report 2012

This report summarizes the activities of the DGFI Analysis Center in 2012 and outlines the planned activities for 2013. 1. General Information and Component Description The German Geodetic Research Institute (Deutsches Geodatisches Forschungsinstitut, DGFI) is an independent research institute hosted at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW) in Munich, Germany. It is directly funded by the Free State of Bavaria. The research covers all fields of geodesy and includes the participation in national and international projects and working groups as well as functions in international bodies (http://dgfi.badw.de). The Institut fur Astronomische und Physikalische Geodasie (IAPG) and the Forschungseinrichtung Satellitengeodasie (FESG) including its personnel at the Geodetic Observatory Wettzell, both at Technische Universitat Munchen (TUM), the geodetic part of the Commission for Geodesy and Glaciology (KEG) and the DGFI of the German Geodetic Commission, both at BAdW, cooperate within the Center of Geodetic Earth System Research1 (CGE). CGE’s main goal is the research of global change through the measurement of changes in solid Earth, oceans, cryosphere, and atmosphere, as well as the analysis of changes with regards to the triggering physical processes. DGFI has been active as an analysis center (AC) of IVS since its foundation in 1999. Since several years DGFI has been a reliable operational AC.