Name: IVS2016
Start: 2016-03-13T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2016-03-19T18:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

IVS2016

from Sunday, 13 March 2016 (08:00) to Saturday, 19 March 2016 (18:00)

Monday, 7 March 2016
Tuesday, 8 March 2016
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
Thursday, 10 March 2016
Friday, 11 March 2016
Saturday, 12 March 2016
Sunday, 13 March 2016

16:00 Registration
Registration
16:00 - 20:00

18:00 Icebreaker Reception
Icebreaker Reception
18:00 - 20:00

Monday, 14 March 2016

09:00

09:00 - 09:15
09:15 Part 1
Part 1
09:15 - 10:50
Contributions

09:15 INVITED TALK: Current Trends and Challenges in Satellite Laser Ranging - Graham Appleby (NERC Space Geodesy Facility, Herstmonceux, UK)

09:40 INVITED TALK: An Overview of the Japanese GALA-V Wideband VLBI System - Mamoru Sekido (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)

10:05 IVS Retreat 2015 - Axel Nothnagel (Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn)

10:20 BRAND EVN - Gino Tuccari (INAF-IRA and MPI)

10:35 Plan for a VLBI antenna in Tahiti from 2018 - richard Biancale (CNES/GRGS)
10:50 Tea / Coffee Break
Tea / Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:15
11:15 Part 2
Part 2
11:15 - 12:45
Contributions

11:15 Building a new core station in Ny-Ålesund - Leif Morten Tangen (Norwegian Mapping Authority)

11:30 The progress of Seshan VGOS station construction - Guangli Wang (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)

11:45 VGOS observations with GGAO12M, Westford, and the new Kokee 12m antenna - Arthur Niell (MIT Haystack Observatory)

12:00 KPGO 12m Signal Chain Update, First Light and Beyond - Chet Ruszczyk (MIT Haystack Observatory)

12:15 Unveiling the VGOS Signal Chain at the Kokee Park Geophysical Observatory - Ganesan Rajagopalan (MIT Haystack Observatory)

12:30 Status and first results from the VGOS-compatible antenna Ws with an Elevenfeed at Wettzell - Gerhard Kronschnabl (Geodetic Observatory Wettzell)
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:00
14:00 Part 3
Part 3
14:00 - 14:45
Contributions

14:00 Operating Experience of Broadband Acquisition System on RT-13 Radio Telescopes - Evgeny Nosov (IAA RAS)

14:15 Current status of the development and performance of OCTAVE-DAS and Correlator System - Tomoaki Oyama (NAOJ)

14:30 On your Marks ... Flex, Buff and VGOS, partly even in real-time - harro verkouter (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC, Dwingeloo)
14:45 Part 1
Part 1
14:45 - 15:25
Contributions

14:45 INVITED TALK: Delay & Phase Calibration in VGOS Post-processing - Roger Cappallo (MIT Haystack Observatory)

15:10 Progress on the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management initiative on the Global Geodetic Reference Frame and the Norwegian Mapping Authority's core station project at 79° North - Per Erik Opseth (Norwegian Mapping Authority)
15:25 Get drinks, move to Poster area
Get drinks, move to Poster area
15:25 - 15:45
15:45 Authors in attendance
Authors in attendance
15:45 - 16:45
Contributions

15:45 The UN-GGIM Roadmap for the Global Geodetic Reference Frame - Halfdan Pascal Kierulf (Norwegian Mapping Authority)

15:45 High-speed data playback of VLBI hardware correlator - Jiangying Gan (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory,CAS)

15:45 Difxcalc: Calc11 for the DiFX Correlator - David Gordon (NVI, Inc./GSFC)

15:45 Operational VGOS Scheduling - Bill Petrachenko (Natural Resources Canada)

15:45 First implementations of new monitoring capabilities as extension to the e-RemoteCtrl software - Alexander Neidhardt (Technische Universität München, Geodätisches Observatorium Wettzell)

15:45 First results of the FAST-S/X-sessions with new VGOS antennas - Alexander Neidhardt (Technische Universität München, Geodätisches Observatorium Wettzell) Pablo de Vicente (Observatorio de Yebes (IGN))

15:45 The German Antarctic Receiving Station O’Higgins and its VLBI-capabilities - Christian Plötz (Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie)

15:45 The Development of Hardware Correlator in SHAO - zhijun xu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS)

15:45 The impact of the broadband VLBI on the next decade - Kazuhiro Takefuji (NICT) Mamoru Sekido (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)

15:45 How to register a VGOS-radio telescope at ITU and why it is important - Brian Corey (MIT Haystack Observatory) Vincenza TORNATORE (Politecnico di Milano - DICA)

15:45 Automated simultaneous local ties with GNSS and robot tachymeter - Sten Bergstrand (SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden)

15:45 DOR Local-correlation Delay Model Calculation Experiment in CE-3 Mission - Yidan Huang (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)

15:45 Implementation of the VGOS Trials - Dirk Behrend (NVI, Inc.)

15:45 First 2 Gbps observations between KVAZAR VGOS antennas and Yebes RAEGE antenna - Pablo de Vicente (Observatorio de Yebes (IGN))

15:45 Current Status of Ishioka VGOS antenna - Ryoji Kawabata (Geospatial Information Authority of Japan)

15:45 Preparations for a new VGOS radio telescope at HartRAO - Ludwig Combrinck (HartRAO)

15:45 Update on the Spanish-Portuguese RAEGE project - Pablo de Vicente (Observatorio de Yebes (IGN))

15:45 From CONT to VGOS: The Evolution of the CONT Campaigns - Cynthia Thomas (NVI, Inc.)

15:45 Metsähovi Geodetic Fundamental Station in Finland - new VGOS site, plans, and current status - Nataliya Zubko (Finnish Geospatial Research Institute)

15:45 Plans and progress of the Vienna Correlator - Johannes Boehm (Technische Universität Wien)
16:45 Drinks "refuel"
Drinks "refuel"
16:45 - 17:00
17:00 Authors in attendance
Authors in attendance
17:00 - 18:00
Contributions

17:00 Preliminary Results of VLBI observations of the Chang’E-3 Lunar Lander - Axel Nothnagel (Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn) Rüdiger Haas (Chalmers University of Technology)

17:00 Progress on VLBI Ecliptic Plane Survey - Fengchun Shu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)

17:00 Completing the K-band Celestial Reference Frame in the North. - Aletha de Witt (Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory)

17:00 IVS Primary Data Center and Analysis Center at BKG - Dieter Ullrich (BKG)

17:00 Aspects of relativistic geodesy within the framework of VLBI and VGOS - Ludwig Combrinck (HartRAO)

17:00 VLBI sources in optical and radio - César GATTANO (SYRTE - Observatoire de Paris)

17:00 The variable Earth annual retrograde nutation - César GATTANO (SYRTE - Observatoire de Paris)

17:00 Refinement of Rapid UT1 Estimation Derived from Tsukuba VLBI Measurements after 2011 Earthquake - Gerald Engelhardt (BKG (Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy))

17:00 Venus and Mars Express spacecraft observations with Wettzell radio telescopes - Alexander Neidhardt (Technische Universität München, Geodätisches Observatorium Wettzell)

17:00 The new Geodetic Research Data Management System at HartRAO - Glenda Coetzer (HartRAO)

17:00 ivg::ASCOT: The Development of a new VLBI Software Package - Thomas Artz (Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn)

17:00 Application and development of VieVS at BACC - Johannes Boehm (Technische Universität Wien)

17:00 VieVS 2.3 - status of the Vienna VLBI Software and plans for the future - Johannes Böhm (Technische Universität Wien)

17:00 Vienna contribution to ITRF2014 - Johannes Boehm (Technische Universität Wien)

17:00 Hard- and software tools for the education of Geodetic VLBI - Thomas Hobiger (Chalmers / Onsala Space Observatory)

17:00 Transition to the vgosDb data format. - John Gipson (NVI Inc/GSFC NASA)

17:00 Connected-element interferometry and error analysis of Beidou GEO navigation satellites - Fengchun Shu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)

17:00 VLBI Delay Reduced from S/C Observation and its Calibration in Chang’E Mission - Guangli Wang (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)

17:00 On the impact of inhomogeneities in meteorological data on VLBI data analysis - Kyriakos Balidakis (Technische Universität Berlin, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, Berlin, Germany)

17:00 INVITED POSTER: APOD mission status and observe APOD by VLBI - Guangli Wang (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)

17:00 The effects of quasar variability on astrometry - Shabala Stanislav (University of Tasmania)

17:00 Improvement of the IVS-INT01 Sessions - John Gipson (NVI Inc/GSFC NASA)

17:00 Application of Kalman filtering for the analysis of Intensive sessions - Tobias Nilsson (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences)

17:00 IVS Combiantion Center at BKG: Options and functions of the revised website - Sabine Bachmann (BKG)
18:30 Meeting of the Monitor and Control Infrastructure (MCI) group
Meeting of the Monitor and Control Infrastructure (MCI) group
18:30 - 20:00

WG on Galactic Aberration (WG8) meeting
WG on Galactic Aberration (WG8) meeting
18:30 - 20:00
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
09:00 Part 2
Part 2
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Next Generation Global Geodetic Networks for GGOS - Dan MacMillan (NVI, Inc./NASA GSFC)

09:15 VGOS Source Selection Criteria - Bill Petrachenko (Natural Resources Canada)

09:30 Observing with sibling and twin telescopes - Lucia Plank (University of Tasmania)

09:45 Prototyping automation and dynamic observing with the AuScope array - Jim Lovell (University of Tasmania)

10:00 Current status of an implementation of a system monitoring for seamless auxiliary data at the Geodetic Observatory Wettzell - Alexander Neidhardt (Technische Universität München, Geodätisches Observatorium Wettzell)

10:15 New generation VLBI: Intraday UT1 estimations - Alexander Ipatov (Institute of Applied Astronomy RAS)
10:30 Tea / Coffee Break
Tea / Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Part 1
Part 1
11:00 - 12:40
Contributions

11:00 INVITED TALK: Activities of the IERS Working Group on Site Survey and Co-location - Sten Bergstrand (SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden)

11:25 First Local Ties from Data of the Wettzell Triple Radiotelescope Array - Torben Schüler (Geodetic Observatory Wettzell - BKG)

11:40 Activities of Sejong station and toward the GGOS - Sang Oh YI (NGII(National Geographic Information Institutue))

11:55 Report on the current activities of GSI VLBI - Ryoji Kawabata (Geospatial Information Authority of Japan)

12:10 VERA K-band Geodetic VLBI experiment using newly developed high speed sampler and recorder - Takaaki Jike (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

12:25 Optimizing the African VLBI Network for Astronomy and Geodesy - Aletha de Witt (Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory)
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 13:40

13:40 Busses to HartRAO
Busses to HartRAO
13:40 - 14:20

14:20

14:20 - 19:00

19:30 Asia-Oceania VLBI Group for Geodesy and Astrometry (AOV) meeting
Asia-Oceania VLBI Group for Geodesy and Astrometry (AOV) meeting
19:30 - 21:00
Wednesday, 16 March 2016
09:00 Part 2
Part 2
09:00 - 10:45
Contributions

09:00 The Italian VLBI network: first results and future perspectives - Matteo Stagni (IRA - INAF)

09:15 A Technical Overview of the EVN - Pablo de Vicente (Observatorio de Yebes (IGN))

09:30 New DiFX sofware correlator cluster at Bonn - Arno Mueskens (IGG Uni Bonn)

09:45 Real-time e-VLBI in the EVN and software correlation at JIVE - Bob Campbell (JIVE)

10:00 Current Status of Shanghai VLBI Correlator - Wu Jiang (SHAO,CAS)

10:15 The progress of VLBI digital backend in SHAO - renjie zhu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Science)

10:30 The first geodetic VLBI field-test of LIFT: a 550Km long optical fiber link for remote antenna synchronization - Matteo Stagni (IRA - INAF)
10:45 Tea / Coffee Break
Tea / Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 12:25
Contributions

11:10 Constraining Least Squares VLBI Solutions - Thomas Artz (Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn)

11:25 Robust ambiguity estimation for automated analysis of Intensive sessions - Niko Kareinen (Chalmers University of Technology)

11:40 Results from the VLBI Analysis Software Comparison Campaign 2015 - Grzegorz Klopotek (Chalmers University of Technology)

11:55 Simulations of near real-time EOP estimation from a future VGOS network - Tobias Nilsson (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences)

12:10 Status Report Norwegian Mapping Authority Analysis Center - Ann-Silje Kirkvik (Norwegian Mapping Authority)
12:25 Part 1
Part 1
12:25 - 12:50
Contributions

12:25 INVITED TALK: IVS contribution to the ITRF2014 - Sabine Bachmann (BKG)
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 14:00
14:00 Part 2
Part 2
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

14:00 The IVS Contribution to JTRF2014 - Richard Gross (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

14:15 Application of Kalman filtering for the determination of a VLBI terrestrial reference frame - Benedikt Soja (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences)

14:30 VLBI processing at ESOC, the last piece for generating an independent reference frame - Claudia Flohrer (ESOC - Navigation Support Office, Darmstadt, Germany)

14:45 Combination of the two radio space geodetic techniques with VieVS during CONT14 - Younghee Kwak (Technische Universität Wien)

15:00 INVITED TALK: Status of the ICRF3 and Gaia activities - Patrick Charlot (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux)

15:25 Aspects of ICRF-3 - Chopo Ma (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
16:20
16:20 - 22:30
Contributions

16:50 DINNER TALK: Half a century of geodetic VLBI analysis – a personal retrospect and future outlook - Harald Schuh (GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences)
Thursday, 17 March 2016
09:00 Part 3
Part 3
09:00 - 10:45
Contributions

09:00 Vienna contribution to the ICRF3 - David Mayer (Technische Universität Wien)

09:15 Status of the X/S Source Catalog - David Gordon (NVI Inc./GSFC)

09:30 Estimating the Celestial Reference Frame via Intra-Technique Combination - Andreas Iddink (Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn)

09:45 Selecting sources that define a stable celestial reference frame with the Allan variance - Karine Le Bail (NVI, Inc.)

10:00 Defining Sources Selection and Celestial Reference Frame Stability - César GATTANO (SYRTE - Observatoire de Paris)

10:15 The XKa Celestial Reference Frame: Assessing Accuracy - Christopher Jacobs (JPL/NASA)

10:30 About the extension of the coordinate parametrization of radio sources in VLBI - Maria Karbon (GFZ)
10:45 Tea / Coffee Break
Tea / Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15 Part 4
Part 4
11:15 - 12:45
Contributions

11:15 ICRF sources: How good is the 'deep' southern sky - Sayan Basu (University of South Africa and Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa)

11:30 The structure of the radio source 0642+449 detected from CONT14 observations - Minghui XU (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)

11:45 Images of VLBI calibrators from the BeSSeL survey - Bo Zhang (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)

12:00 The Statistic Analysis of Atmospheric Effects of Differential VLBI - Shuangjing Xu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)

12:15 An Inequality Constrained Least-Squares approach as an alternative estimation procedure for atmospheric parameters from VLBI observations - Sebastian Halsig (Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn)

12:30 On the impact of different mapping functions on geodetic and tropospheric products from VLBI data analysis - Kyriakos Balidakis (Technische Universität Berlin, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, Berlin, Germany)
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:15
14:15 Part 5
Part 5
14:15 - 15:15
Contributions

14:15 El Nino and VLBI measured LOD - John Gipson (NVI Inc/GSFC NASA)

14:30 Ultra-rapid earth rotation determination with VLBI during CONT11 and CONT14 - Rüdiger Haas (Chalmers University of Technology)

14:45 Effects on Earth Orientation Parameters caused by different analysis options - Robert Heinkelmann (GFZ Potsdam)

15:00 Tidal atmospheric loading and VLBI - Anastasiia Girdiuk (TU Wien)
15:15 Part 1
Part 1
15:15 - 15:45
Contributions

15:15 E-GRIP: A Highly Elliptical Orbit Satellite Mission for Co-location in Space - Markus Rothacher (ETH Zurich)

15:30 Near-field VLBI for Planetary Science - Bob Campbell (JIVE)
15:45 Tea / Coffee Break
Tea / Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:15
16:15 Part 2
Part 2
16:15 - 16:45
Contributions

16:15 VLBI observations of GNSS signals on the baseline Hobart-Ceduna – First results - Andreas Hellerschmied (Technische Universität Wien)

16:30 Accurate spacecraft positioning by VLBI imaging - Weimin Zheng (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory,CAS)
16:45 Closing Remarks - Axel Nothnagel (Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn)
Closing Remarks
- Axel Nothnagel (Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn)
16:45 - 17:00
Friday, 18 March 2016

09:00 IVS Analysis Workshop
IVS Analysis Workshop
09:00 - 12:30

14:00 VGOS Technical Committee (VTC) meeting
VGOS Technical Committee (VTC) meeting
14:00 - 15:30

16:00 WG on ICRF3 meeting
WG on ICRF3 meeting
16:00 - 18:00
Saturday, 19 March 2016

09:00 IVS Directing Board meeting
IVS Directing Board meeting
09:00 - 18:00