by Johannes Böhm | Sep 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
This year’s edition of the VieVS Days was held online as webinar from September 14 to 15. While the first day was devoted to the VLBI module of the Vienna VLBI and Satellite Software (VieVS) with lectures by Helene on single session analysis and Sigrid on global...
by Johannes Böhm | Aug 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
While visiting his family in Vienna, Benedikt Soja stopped by for a chat at TU Wien. He also took the chance and talked to Matthias Schartner who will start in Benedikt’s group on space geodesy at ETH Zürich on October 1, 2020. Definitely, a close co-operation...
by Johannes Böhm | Jul 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
Do you want to know where new VGOS stations would best improve earth orientation parameters? Schartner et al. provide the answer in an article in Earth, Planets and Space.
by mschartn | Jun 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
Finally, we found some time to record new videos for our VieVS YouTube channel. In these videos, all aspects of the VieVS VLBI module are discussed and examples are shown. This covers all major features of the VieVS VLBI software, including: session analysis (fixing...
by mschartn | May 13, 2020 | Scheduling, software
Many new features and enhancements over the last months made me decide to finally close the beta status of VieSched++ and go for a full release of VieSched++ as version 1.0. VieSched++ is already widely used to schedule various observing programs, such as INT2, INT3,...
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 Jakob Gruber | Apr 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
The IVS newsletter features, besides other important topics, VGOS correlation activities at TU Wien carried out by Jakob. Enjoy reading!
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 Jakob Gruber | Dec 20, 2019 | correlation
Just before Christmas, on December 20, 2019, 240 private cores of the VSC-4 dedicated for VLBI correlation could be used for the first time. This test showed that DiFX 2.6 and HOPS-2.20 could have been installed successfully on the most powerful supercomputer in...
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!
