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SUMMARY:Regional data for treaty monitoring
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Robert Mellors (University of California\, San Diego
 \, CA\, USA)\, Christos Saragiotis (CTBTO Preparatory Commission\, Vienna\
 , Austria)\, Michelle Grobbelaar (Council for Geoscience\, Pretoria\, Sout
 h Africa)\, Ronnie Quintero (Observatorio Vulcanologico y Sismologico de C
 osta Rica (OVSICORI)\, Costa Rica)\, Nortin Peter-David Titus (Geological 
 Survey\, Ministry of Mines and Energy\, Namibia)\, Atalay Ayele (Institute
  of Geophysics\, Space Science and Astronomy of Addis Ababa University (IG
 SSA)\, Ethiopia)\n\nThe International Monitoring System (IMS) was designed
  as a sparse global network with the purpose of detecting nuclear explosio
 ns. The sparseness of the network\, the complexity of wave propagation in 
 the Earth’s interior\, the oceans and the atmosphere and the lack of acc
 urate models that describe it limit the accuracy of the location of events
  detected by the IMS stations. To improve location capabilities the IMS de
 pends on reference events\, also known as ground truth events\, that is\, 
 events the spatiotemporal origin of which is known with high confidence. T
 he characterization of events as ground truth requires the use of dense na
 tional and regional networks and cooperation among National Data Centres (
 NDCs). Furthermore\, such cooperation enhances the monitoring capabilities
  of the NDCs as it allows them to surpass the capabilities of the IMS. Thi
 s panel will discuss the synergy between the IMS\, regional experts and th
 e NDCs and in particular the benefits Treaty monitoring has reaped from re
 gional expert contributions\, how the CTBTO contributes to regional needs 
 and how this synergy can be facilitated and further extended in the future
 .\n\nhttps://conferences.ctbto.org/event/7/contributions/1386/
LOCATION:Stage 1 (Online)
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URL:https://conferences.ctbto.org/event/7/contributions/1386/
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