Spatial Geodesy Research Group
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The Spatial Geodesy Research Group(French: Groupe de Recherche de Géodésie Spatiale, GRGS)[1] is a French group established to advance space geodesy. It is composed of ten public bodies (CNES, IGN, INSU, SHOM, Bureau des longitudes, Observatoire de Paris, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université de la Polynésie française, ESGT du CNAM) providing their researchers, engineers, technicians, administrative staff (more than 100 people) and the appropriate research environment..
The GRGS, spread over the whole of France (Grasse, Toulouse, Paris, Brest, Tahiti, Le Mans), is structured as a real laboratory, with a Steering Committee, a Scientific Directorate and its Scientific Council, an Office, a supported Evaluation Committee on the sections of the CNRS, and an Executive Director. The GRGS has organized summer schools every two years in the premises of the ENSG in Forcalquier, and each year various scientific days, in order to facilitate the progression of knowledge in the community.