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 […]
Eskil Varenius held an excellent seminar on amplitude calibration at the 8 April 2021 VGOS Technical Committee (VTC) meeting. This topic is of high relevance for the VGOS stations. His presentation slides and a recording of the seminar are linked below. (Thanks to Dirk Behrend for the coordination of this event.) Title: Station Amplitude Calibration: […]
The IVS Directing Board (DB) recently elected a new chair, Dr. Rüdiger Haas, of the Onsala Space Observatory of the Chalmers University of Technology in Onsala, Sweden. Rüdiger also serves as the IVS representative to the IERS. Also recently elected were representatives Pablo de Vicente, Yebes Observatory, Spain (Networks) and Oleg Titov, Geoscience Australia (Analysis). […]
The April 2021 issue of the IVS Newsletter is available on the IVS CC website. https://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications/newsletter/issue59.pdf Topics include: News from the Board: Changing of the Guard Swiss Analysis Center at ETH Zurich Stream the Lectures of the 3rd VLBI School on Vimeo EVGA2021 Held Successfully in Cyberspace From vlbi.org From the VGOS World How to: […]
An announcement from Dirk and the IVS Coordinating Center: I’m pleased to announce that we will organize an IVS Technical OperationsWorkshop (TOW) at the beginning of May (May 3–5, 2021) as a virtual meeting. As usual, the meeting will be oriented towards training and problem resolution in VLBI operations; this year’s TOW is intended to […]
The December issue of the IVS Newsletter is available on the IVS CC website. https://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications/newsletter/issue58.pdf
IVS stations will be performing a historic set of observations called “T2++” sessions on January 12, 2021, and on November 30, 2021. In these two sessions, 24 and 28 IVS radio telescopes, respectively, will be participating, and will perform a series of simultaneous observations of quasars as fixed reference points on the sky. The main […]
The final version of the IVS Infrastructure Development Plan 2030 is now available on the IVS Coordinating Center website, https://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/strategic/IVS-InfrastructureDevelopmentPlan2030_2020-09-28.pdf. This document presents a vision for the IVS on a path into the future. IVS stakeholders and those in related organizations such as the IAG are welcome to comment (please email axel dot nothnagel at […]
The IVS Newsletter, August 2020 edition, is now available: https://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications/newsletter/issue57.pdf
The Norwegian geodesy video “Quest for the Exact Position,” produced by Sverre Krüger and featuring several familiar IVS faces, is now available on Vimeo in English. Thanks to the UN-GGIM Subcommittee on Geodesy for sharing this update. http://unggrf.org/
