GGOS contribution to increase visibility of Geodesy and emphasize its value to science and society

The Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) is a collaborative contribution of the global geodesy community to the observation and monitoring of the Earth System. Geodetic observation techniques and analysis infrastructures, as well as high-quality geodetic products, provide the basis for advances in Earth and planetary system sciences and for various applications. One main objective of GGOS is to support activities and initiatives to communicate the value of Geodesy to science and society, as well as contribute to understand and solve complex issues facing the global geodetic community. Towards this objective, GGOS has established and maintains a website ggos.org, which serves as a point of entry to Geodesy to facilitate discoverability and usability of geodetic data and products. This includes user-friendly and illustrative descriptions about geodetic observation techniques and results. GGOS has also recently produced short videos to explain the value of Geodesy to non-geodesists. The new “Discover GGOS and Geodesy” video is available in multiple languages (www.youtube.com/@iag-ggos). Presently, GGOS is working on the implementation of a comprehensive geodetic portal, the GGOS Portal (ggos.org/portal), which should realize in future a comprehensive and descriptive source of geodetic information with detailed metadata. With this, GGOS engages with diverse user communities to increase awareness of Geodesy and the ever-expanding utility of Geodesy in everyday applications