GNSS-Acoustic Processing Short Course

Learning Goals:

• Building strong understanding of GNSS-Acoustics for precise point positioning with a focus on the newly collected data associated with the Community Experiment, including:

  • Deployment strategies

  • Instrument operations

  • Data collection and standards

  • Data access

  • Processing data using the new GNATSS software 

• Network with other researchers who share common interests

  
  

Target Audience: 

Graduate students and more senior researchers that are new to seafloor geodesy processing 

2025 GNSS-Acoustic Short Course Instructors and students.

When:  

August 7-8, 2025 

Where: 

Ford Environmental Science and Technology (ES&T) Building, Room L1116

Georgia Tech, Atlanta Georgia

Travel Support: 

Limited travel and lodging support is available via support from the National Science Foundation grant for the Near-Trench Community Geodetic Experiment.

How to apply:  

[closed] Complete the application form by June 13th. We expect to be able to support travel and lodging for 12 individuals, but expect to accept more with limited or without funds.

Organizers:

• Andy Newman: Georgia Tech

• John DeSanto: Univ. Washington

• David Schmidt: Univ. Washington

• Surui Xie: Univ. Houston

• Melissa Weber: EarthScope Consortium

Support: 

We thank the National Science Foundation (Grant: 2232639) for funding.

Agenda, presentations slides, links, and recordings:

(updated Aug 8, 2025)

Day 1: (Aug 7)
9 am	Introductions and Overview		Morning Recording
9:30 am	GNSS-Acoustic Background
10 am	Break/Networking	snacks and coffee
10:30 am	Data Access and Processing overview
12 pm	Group photo then lunch	lunch on own
1 pm	Preprocessing data with exercises	including instructions on getting onto codespace	Afternoon Recording 1
3 pm	Break/Networking	snacks and drinks
3:30 pm	Class show and Tell
4:30 pm	Run-through examples	see codespace	Afternoon Recording 2
5:30 pm	Adjourn for day	dinner on own
Day 2: (Aug 8)
9 am	Day 2 overview
9:10 am	Pre-filtering data	see codespace	Morning Recording
10:30 am	Break/Networking	snacks and coffee
11 am	Other things to know
12 pm	Lunch	lunch on own
1 pm	Final products	see codespace	Afternoon Recording
3 pm	Break/Networking	snacks and coffee
3:30 pm	Individualized practice with data
5 pm	Adjourn