by Johannes Böhm | May 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
While the physical general assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) in Vienna in the first week in May 2020 was cancelled for the COVID19 pandemic, an event called Sharing Geoscience Onine (SGO) was organized instead. In the mostly text-chat-based sessions, we...
by Johannes Böhm | Jan 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
VieSched++, the new VieVS scheduling module, is used by Matthias Schartner for the generation of VGOS schedules for the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry (IVS). Scientific investigations on optimizing VGOS schedules are published in Journal of...
by Johannes Böhm | Dec 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
On December 17, 2019, Matthias Schartner successfully defended his PhD thesis on scheduling VLBI observations. John Gipson, Axel Nothnagel, and Johannes Böhm challenged him with difficult questions, but Matthias masterfully answered all. Congratulations!
by Johannes Böhm | Dec 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
On the occasion of Matthias’ PhD defense, John Gipson from NVI/NASA GSFC visited the Vienna VLBI group. We took the chance to discuss the next steps for the generation of ITRF2020.
by Johannes Böhm | Nov 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
On October 22, 2019, Andreas Hellerschmied was awarded the Karl Rinner Award by the Austrian Geodetic Kommission (ÖGK) for the publication on VLBI observations to the APOD satellite in the Journal Sensors in 2018. Congratulations, Andi!
