***************************************************************************= *** dorismail 01-Nov-2016 14:01:57 Message No 1049 ***************************************************************************= *** Author: "Noll, Carey E. (GSFC-61A0)" Subject: Special Issue of the Journal of Geodesy (JoG) on Laser Ranging Author: Erricos Pavlis, Cinzia Luceri Dear Colleagues, The International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS) is organizing the collection= of papers dealing with the topics of interest to ILRS, for publication in = a Special Issue (SI) of the Journal of Geodesy (JoG). There is already grea= t interest in such an effort from the members of the ILRS. It would be howe= ver of great value if colleagues from different research areas also contrib= uted works that either make use of ILRS data and products or deal with thei= r application of Laser Ranging (LR). This will be only the second Special I= ssue dedicated to laser ranging since the establishment of the ILRS in late= 1998. We are soliciting high quality papers that will cover the main appli= cation areas of LR, the organization of the ILRS, the engineering aspects, = the operations, the support of missions by LR, various aspects of LR data a= nalysis, research and scientific products relying on LR, and future prospec= ts. The scope of the contributed papers should cover scientific analyses and re= search investigations using all types of measurements carried out for Earth= and planetary science and related disciplines, as well as aspects of model= ing of the data acquired by LR and interpretation of the obtained results. = It is our hope that the SI will provide a forum to document the level of in= terdisciplinary research being carried out with ILRS-collected observations= and derived products. If you wish to contribute a paper to the Special Issue on Laser Ranging, pl= ease submit a tentative title, a list of authors, and a short abstract of y= our proposed contribution to the guest editors by January 31, 2017. The aut= hors of the accepted manuscripts will receive a notification by February 15= , 2017 with instructions on how to submit their full manuscript to JoG thro= ugh the Editorial Manager (http://www.editorialmanager.com/joge) until May = 31, 2017, for peer-review. It should be emphasized that the contributions w= ill go through the same critical review process as any other JoG paper. Pap= ers should be focused on special topics and duplications of the main issues= have to be avoided. The final decision of publication remains, as always, = with the Editor-in-Chief of JoG. Yours sincerely, Erricos C. Pavlis (epavlis@umbc.edu) Cinzia Luceri (cinzia.luceri@e-geos.it) Guest Editors to Journal of Geodesy Please do not reply directly to this message, but send comments and suggestions to IDS.central.bureau@cls.fr