Analysis Center Response Form
           Joint CSTG/IERS Call for Participation
   International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry
  
Analysis Center name: Centro di Geodesia Spaziale (CGS)
Type of analysis center: global___   special_X_
  
Parent/Funding organization: Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)
  
Name and title of primary scientific/technical contact: Dr.
  Giuseppe Bianco, geodynamic scientist.
  
Name and title of administrative contact: Dr. Francesco Vespe,
  Responsible of ASI-CGS geodesy activities
  
Mailing address: Centro di Geodesia Spaziale, C.da Terlecchia,
  75100 Matera, Italy
  
Phone: +39 0835 377238                       Fax: +39 0835 334951
  
E-mail address: vespe@asi.it; Bianco@asi.it  
Web address: http://geodaf.mt.asi.it
  
  If applying as a Special Analysis Center, describe the special
  type(s) of analysis you will perform. If applying as a Global
  Analysis Center, describe the global analysis you will
  perform. Indicate your specific analysis interests and
  describe how you select the data you analyze.
  
  We will perform global analysis for the maintenance of TRF,
  CRF and EOP routinely using all the geodetic VLBI databases.
  Analysis of the EUROPE campaign will be carried out regularly
  but without time schedule.
  Our specific analysis interests are regional ad global
  geodynamics, comparison ad combination of results from other
  space geodetic techniques, GPS ad SLR, performed at the CGS. 
  
  Describe the computer hardware configuration and the software
  package(s) you use for analysis. HP-UX 720, CALC/f-SOLVE.
  
Internet connection type or bit rate:   256 Kb/s  
                                     
Data storage capacity: 9 GB on-line, DAT and CDROM for data archiving.
  
Describe any planned facility upgrades. None
  
Number of full-time-equivalent personnel assigned to analysis
  center functions: 1.
  
Indicate which data center(s) you use: CDDIS, BONN.
  
Indicate which of the following IVS Analysis Center functions
  you will perform and explain briefly how you will perform them:
       Provide timely feedback to stations                    
            No
       Create high quality products and perform timely archiving
  and distribution    No
       Place final results (TRF, CRF, EOP, and others) in IVS
  Data Centers        Yes
       Perform software development and documentation         
            No
       Compare products                                  No
       Adhere to IERS Conventions                             
  Yes
  
  Attach a list of personnel (names and titles) whom you
  designate as IVS Associate Members through their affiliation
  with your analysis center.
  
  Dr. Giuseppe Bianco, Responsible for Centro di Geodesia
  Spaziale of ASI
  Dr. Francesco Vespe, Responsible for ASI-CGS geodesy
  activities, Centro di Geodesia Spaziale, ASI.
  Dr. Roberto Lanotte, geodynamic scientist, Centro di Geodesia
  Spaziale, Telespazio SpA.
  Dr. Cecilia Sciarretta,Responsible for scientific activities,
  Centro di Geodesia Spaziale, Telespazio SpA.

  Please provide any other information that you feel will be
  helpful in demonstrating your analysis center's capabilities
  to participate in the IVS. If you proposed to the IERS in
  1995/6 as an analysis center and wish to have that proposal
  carry over to the IVS, please make such a statement in this
  proposal.
  
  The CGS  is involved in  data processing of SLR, GPS and VLBI
  techniques. 
  For SLR, CGS contributes regularly to IERS with its global
  yearly solutions (since 1996) and with the monthly EOPs for
  the B-Bulletin (since April 1997). Besides, it has submitted
  the application to be a Special Analysis Centre for ILRS,
  providing, among the others, time series of geopotential
  coefficients from a multiple satellite analysis. 
  CGS contributes to EUREF/IGS with the weekly analysis of a
  regional european GPS network, involving  the Italian sites
  managed by ASI  (Italian GPS Fiducial Network).  
  The VLBI data analysis -started in 1990- has been mainly
  devoted to the analysis of the EUROPE campaign. These results
  have been extensively compared to those from our SLR and GPS
  solutions for co-located sites.  Also global geodetic VLBI
  solutions have been carried out and  compared to  SLR global
  solutions and to  ITRF to verify the consistency of the
  different reference systems,  in terms of
  rototranslations/scale parameters,  of empirical eulerian
  poles, where possible, and in terms of Fourier coefficients
  for the EOPs. A global VLBI solution has been also  performed
  to measure the relativistic parameter   as accurately as
  possible  in cooperation with  the Universities of Bari and
  Bologna.
  CGS proposed to the IERS in 1995/6 as a Scientific Analysis
  Center and wishes to have that proposal carry over to the IVS.
  
  Your signature on this form indicates your agreement to
  participate in the IVS as an Analysis Center and to work
  closely with the IVS Analysis Coordinator. If this is a new
  proposal (i.e. not carried over from IERS) your signature
  commits your organization to participate in the IVS.
  
Name of person signing: Dr. Francesco Vespe  
Title: responsible of ASI-CGS geodesy activities.
  
Signature: _________________________________________   Date: 17 Sep. 1998