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The International Gravity Field Service (IGFS) is a service of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) that coordinates and harmonizes the actions of the IAG services related to the Earth’s gravity field, namely Bureau Gravimétrique International (BGI), International Service for the Geoid (ISG), International Geodynamics and Earth Tides Service (IGETS), International Center for Global Earth Models (ICGEM), and International Digital Elevation Model Service (IDEMS).
The IGFS
IGFS was established in 2003 at the IAG/IUGG General Assembly in Sapporo (Japan). Its structure is based on the Advisory Board, the Central Bureau, the Technical Centre, and the coordinated gravity field Services.
The main goal of IGFS is to coordinate the servicing of the geodetic and geophysical community with gravity field-related data, software, and information. To this aim IGFS coordinates and promotes the collection, the archiving, and the dissemination of gravity field related data; courses...
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Hermann Drewes The Geodesist’s Handbook 2012, 2012. Journal of Geodesy, 86(10) 787.
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Barzaghi, R. (2017). International Gravity Field Service (IGFS). In: Sideris, M.G. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geodesy. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02370-0_18-1
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