IAG celebrated its 150 years anniversary by having a special symposium in Potsdam in September 2013. The event was hosted by GFZ Potsdam. The proceedings consists of all papers presented during the symposium was published by Springer.
The preface was written as follow;
In 1862, the Prussian General Johann Jacob Baeyer initiated the Central European Arc Measurement (“MitteleuropäischeGradmessung”) project. By the end of that year, 15 countries had affirmed their participation, and in 1864, the first General Conference was held in Berlin. This was a great success and the start of an organised international collaboration in geodesy. The IAG counts this international scientific initiative, and the organisation it spawned, as its origin. The IAG celebrated its 150th anniversary with a Scientific Assembly in Potsdam, Germany, 2–6 September 2013.
IAG 150 Years
Among the papers presented were on the history of IAG as following;
- From a regional project to an international organization: The "Baeyer-Helmert-era" of the International Association of Geodesy 1862-1916 [Wolfgang Torge]
- IAG history: the years of World Wars and aftermath (1917-1959) [Claude Boucher & Pascal Willis]
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