Correlator Response Form
             Joint CSTG/IERS Call for Participation
     International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry

Updated 000905 by NRV with information from Y. Fukuzaki

Correlator name: Tsukuba VLBI Center

Parent/Funding organization: Geographical Survey Institute,
Ministry of Construction, Japan

Name and title of primary technical contact:
     Name: Yoshihiro FUKUZAKI
     Title : Deputy Head, Second Geodetic Division, Geodetic
Department, Geographical Survey Institute

Name and title of administrative contact:
     Name: Yoshihiro FUKUZAKI
     Title : Deputy Head, Second Geodetic Division, Geodetic
Department, Geographical Survey Institute

Mailing address:   Kitasato-1, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-kan, Japan 

Phone: +81-298-64-4801                  Fax: +81-298-64-1802
                              
E-mail address: vlbi@gaos.gsi-mc.go.jp       
Web address: http://vldb.gsi-mc.go.jp/sokuchi/vlbi/

List the networks/programs for which you correlate data.:
     The GSI Domestic VLBI Network

Indicate correlator capacity:  Number of baselines  3   Number of
stations  3   Number of playback units  3  
Hours of operation per week  40 hours  

Number of full-time-equivalent personnel assigned to correlator
functions:  3  

Percentage of time correlator is used: geodesy/astrometry  100 % 
other (list): none
Percentage of total correlator capacity that is unused  70 % 

Internet connection type or bit rate: IM-Net,1.5MBbps       
Data storage capacity: 150 GByte

Data Center(s) you use: by ourselves

Describe any planned facility upgrades: none

Indicate which of the following IVS Correlator functions you
perform and explain briefly how you will provide them: 
      X  Receive, process, and archive VLBI data
          We can receive K4 tape, and correlate, do Bandwidth
Synthesis and produce MK? database.
          All files are stored in DAT.
      X  Provide timely feedback to stations
          We send the result of correlation by E-mail.
      X  Maintain community tape pool
          We pool K4 tape.
      X  Make data available to the Analysis Centers
          We can produce MK? database.
         Compare processing techniques, models, and outputs
     


Attach a list of personnel (names and titles) whom you designate
as IVS Associate Members through their affiliation with your
correlator.


Name: Hiroshi HORI
Title: Head, Second Geodetic Division, Geodetic Department, Geographical Survey Institute
Name: Yoshihiro FUKUZAKI
Title: Deputy Head, Second Geodetic Division, Geodetic Department, Geographical Survey Institute
Name: Tadayuki AKIYAMA
Title: Specialist of Second Geodetic Division, Geodetic Department, Geographical Survey Institute
Name: Kousei SHIBA
Title: Chief of the VLBI section, Second Geodetic Division, Geodetic Department, Geographical Survey Institute
Name: Kazuhiro TAKASHIMA
Title: Chief of the Baseline Analysis section, Second Geodetic Division, Geodetic Department, Geographical Survey Institute
Name: Michiko ONOGAKI
Title: Member of the VLBI section, Second Geodetic Division, Geodetic Department, Geographical Survey Institute
Name: Shinobu KURIHARA
Title: Member of the Baseline Analysis section, Second Geodetic Division, Geodetic Department, Geographical Survey Institute
Name: Kohei MIYAGAWA
Title: Member of the Research section, Second Geodetic Division, Geodetic Department, Geographical Survey Institute
Name: Kyoko KOBAYASHI
Title: Research Cooperator, Second Geodetic Division, Geodetic Department, Geographical Survey Institute
Name: Shigeru MATSUZAKA
Title: Head, Space Geodesy Research Division, Geography and Crustal Dynamics Research Center, Geographical Survey Institute


Please provide any other information that you feel will be
helpful in demonstrating your correlator's capabilities to
participate in the IVS. If you proposed to the IERS in 1995/6 as
a correlator facility and wish to have that proposal carry over
to the IVS, please make such a statement in this proposal. :


Our correlator is designed for K4 system. The main correlation
jobs come from the GSI Domestic VLBI Network operated four times
a year. The GSI Domestic VLBI Network consists of 4 fixed VLBI
stations and 1 mobile VLBI stations. We are also sending a
proposal to you as Network Station with Tsukuba VLBI Station that
is one of them.

The data observed with K4 system can be analyzed by the
facilities of the GSI. The tapes recorded in K4 format can be
copied into Mark IV format at Tsukuba VLBI Station by the dubbing
machine. We have K4 correlator for three baselines and Solve
installed workstations. Our human resources can handle the whole
VLBI process (i.e. planning, scheduling, station operation,
correlation and baseline analysis) 


Your signature on this form indicates your agreement to
participate in the IVS as a Correlator and to cooperate with the
IVS Coordinating Center and with the IVS Coordinators. 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:  Akira Yaguchi        Title:
                                   Director of the Geodetic
                                   Department,              
                                   Geographical Survey Institute,
                                                  Ministry of
                                   Construction, Japan
                              

                                        Signature: _________________________________________   Date:
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