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Status

• Commission of the Swiss Academy of Sciences
  
• Founded in 1861 in the frame of the first European Arc Measurements;
  First president: General Henry Dufour
  
• Members who are scientists from universities, governmental services and private companies

Tasks and Functions

• Initiating and co-ordinating fundamental strategic geodetic research in Switzerland
  
• Advising on general policy-making of geodesy including education, and in relation to general social developments
  
• Stimulating the spread of geodetic knowledge to the open public
  
• Stimulating, supporting and extending the geodetic infrastructure of Switzerland
  
• Stimulating the introduction of new technologies and methods to the geodetic community and open public
  
• Maintaining and fostering contacts to international institutions such as the International Association of Geodesy and the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
  

Current main activities

• Support of the Swiss Satellite Observatory at Zimmerwald
  
• Support of the permanent Swiss GPS reference network
  
• Recent crustal movements, crustal strain rates and geodynamics
  
• Implementation of satellite based navigation in geodetic research
  
• 4D Meteo modeling for GPS
  
• Swiss National gravity network
  
• Support of the European Reference system EUREF
  
• Geoid of Switzerland
  
• GIS
  
• Astrometry
  
• Alptransit
  
• CODE
  
• LV 95
  
• LHN 95