This month’s IVS-related articles (courtesy of Nlingi Habana: thank you!): Pakize, et al. (2023): “On the improvement of the sensitivity levels of VLBI solutions from a combination with GNSS” https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2023.06.021 “The fundamental goal of the quality assessment using the sensitivity is to find out to what level VLBI can detect station displacements in the adjusted […]
In this edition of the IVS Newsletter, news of the upcoming general meeting, RAEGE’s Santa Maria station in the Azores, Fortaleza updates, and TOW information: https://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications/newsletter/issue65.pdf
And so it begins: the IVS Technical Operations Workshop (TOW) 2023 registration is now open thru 3/15! The #TOW2023 *in-person* event is intended for the technical staff of IVS stations; the VGOS Workshop is for correlator staff. https://haystack.mit.edu/tow2023 Looking forward to it! From the IVS CC email announcement (courtesy Dirk Behrend): Dear Stations and Previous […]
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The International Association of Geodesy (IAG) has released a statement on the conflict in Ukraine: The International Association of Geodesy and its services strongly condemn the unprovoked and premeditated Russian invasion of Ukraine. We are deeply troubled by the loss of life and hundreds of thousands of civilians becoming refugees, and are very concerned about […]
The RI-VIS Australia – Europe Symposium will be held between Tuesday, October 5th and Thursday, October 7th 2021, as a virtual event. International cooperation in science and technology is an important part of addressing major global issues like climate change, infectious disease, food security, and natural disasters. Research Infrastructures are organizations providing state-of-the-art resources, services […]
The August 2021 issue of the IVS Newsletter is available on the IVS CC website. https://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications/newsletter/issue60.pdf Topics include: Helsinki to host the General Meeting in 2022 Interview with newly elected IVS Chair Alex Nothnagel News from the Board One Thousand and One R1s (and R4s) TOW2021: A Virtual Success TOW: A Teacher’s Perspective
Arthur Niell held an informative talk for the US NASA Goddard group (virtually) on 15 June 2021, on VLBI ties at the Kōkeʻe Park Geophysical Observatory (KPGO) station in Hawaii. The seminar was recorded; the talk and accompanying slides are available for download here. slides (PDF): 20210615_VLBITies_ArthurNiell.pdf seminar video (MP4): 20210615_VLBITies_ArthurNiell_2.mp4
The 11th IVS Technical Operations Workshop (TOW) is being hosted by MIT Haystack Observatory — this year completely online, because of the pandemic. The classes are going well despite the lack of in-person conversations. Looking forward to getting back to normal for upcoming meetings! For the program, TOW Notebook of presentations and documents, and more […]
