Analysis Center Response Form Joint CSTG/IERS Call for Participation International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry Analysis Center name: Shanghai Observatory -------------------- Type of analysis center: global Yes special Yes ----- ---- Parent/Funding organization: Joint Radio Astronomy Research Laboratory, CAS ---------------------------------------------- Name and title of primary scientific/technical contact: Li Jinling, Ph.D. ------------------ Name and title of administrative contact: Li Jinling, Ph.D. ------------------ Mailing address: Shanghai Observatory, 80 Nandan Road Shanghai 20003, P. R. China -------------------------------------- Phone: 8621-64386191-644 Fax: 8621-64384618 ------------------ ------------- E-mail address: jll@center.shao.ac.cn --------------------- Web address: http://center.shao.ac.cn/ ------------------------- 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 apply as both a Special Analysis Center and a Global one. Being a special center, we will analyze especially the observations from those experiments which Seshan and Urumqi as well as other VLBI stations within the Asia-Pacific region take part in, in order to determine the station coordinates and velocities, to feedback to stations to improve their hardware performance and to develop station oriented models of the clock behavior and/or atmosphere etc.. Being a global center, we will contribute to IVS/IERS analysis results on radio celestial frame, terrestrial frame and earth orientation parameters. Also, we will devote to the comparison of various global analysis results, the analysis models and their improvement. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Describe the computer hardware configuration and the software package(s) you use for analysis. : HP C180 4mm TAPE DRIVER HP-UX 10.20 CALC8.2/SOLVE/GLOBL -------------------------------- Internet connection type or bit rate: FTP, WEB SITE -------------- Data storage capacity: 24GB and 4mm tapes ------------------ Describe any planned facility upgrades: Enlarge the hard disk capacity at the end of this year. ------------------------------------------------------- Number of full-time-equivalent personnel assigned to analysis center functions: Qian Zhihan Advisor Li Jinling Coordinator, data analysis, results comparison, analysis model comparison and improvement Wang Guangli Software maintenance and improvement, data analysis Yang Zhigen Data analysis, model comparison and improvement Su Fengchun Data analysis Zhou Ruixian Data analysis, software maintenance ------------------------------------------------------------------ Indicate which data center(s) you use: GSFC/NASA --------- 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: Yes. Especially to Seshan and Urumqi station as well as to other stations in Asia-Pacific region. -------------------------------------------------------- Create high quality products and perform timely archiving and distribution: Yes. ---- Place final results (TRF, CRF, EOP, and others) in IVS Data Centers: Yes. ---- Perform software development and documentation: Yes. Comparison of analysis models and their improvement. ----------------------------------------------------------- Compare products: Yes. Comparison of various global VLBI products as well as with those from GPS, SLR and so on. --------------------------------------------------------- Adhere to IERS Conventions: Yes. Updating the software timely. ------------------------------------ Attach a list of personnel (names and titles) whom you designate as IVS Associate Members through their affiliation with your analysis center. Qian Zhihan Professor Li Jinling Ph.D., Associate Professor ----------------------------------------- Please provide any other information that you feel will be helpful in demonstrating your analysis center's capabilities to participate in the IVS. Shanghai Observatory is a collocation station of VLBI, GPS, SLR and PRARE. It has been an analysis center of IERS of various space geodetic observations. It is the organizer and coordinator of the Asia-Pacific Space Geodynamic Project. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. We wish to have the proposal to IERS carried 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: Li Jinling Title: Ph.D., Associate Prof., ---------- Head Geodetic VLBI group Center for Astrogeodynamic Research Shanghai Observatory, CAS ----------------------------------- Li Jinling Aug. 19, 1998 Signature: _____________________ Date: _________________