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

Data Center name:    Bundesamt fuer Kartographie and Geodaesie, Leipzig

Parent/Funding organization:  
       Bundesamt fuer Kartographie and Geodaesie
       in the framework of the Forschungsgruppe Satellitengeodaesie (FGS)

Name and title of primary technical contact:
       Dr. Volkmar Thorandt, data analyst

Name and title of administrative contact:

              Dr. Wolfgang Schlueter, 
              head of the Geodetic Fundamental Station Wettzell
              Bundesamt fuer Kartographie und Geodaesie
              Fundamentalstation Wettzell
              Sackenrieder Strasse 25
              D-93444 Koetzting
              Germany
              Phone:       +49 (9941) 603-107
              Fax:         +49 (9941) 603-222
              e-mail:      Schlueter@wettzell.ifag.de

              Dr. Johannes Ihde
              Bundesamt fuer Kartographie und Geodaesie
              Karl-Rothe-Strasse 10-14
              D-04105 Leipzig
              Germany
              Phone:       +49 (341) 5634424
              Fax.:        +49 (341) 5634415
              e-mail:      ihde@leipzig.ifag.de

Mailing address:

              Dr. Volkmar Thorandt
              Bundesamt fuer Kartographie und Geodaesie
              Karl-Rothe-Strasse 10-14
              D-04105 Leipzig
              Germany
              Phone:       +49 (341) 5634285
              Fax:         +49 (341) 5634415
              e-mail:      vt@leipzig.ifag.de

              Web address: http://www.ifag.de


Indicate which IVS Network Stations, Operation Centers, Correlators, and
Analysis Centers you will support:
       Operation Centers:
              Geodetic Institute Bonn
       Correlators:
              Astro/Geo Correlator at the Max-Planck-Institute for Radio
              Astronomy, Bonn, Germany
       Analysis Centers:
              GIUB-BKG Analysis Center

Internet connection type or bit rate:           64Kbit/s 
Data storage capacity:                          25GB

Mirror sites planned:
       We plan to mirror the US Data Center 

Describe any planned facility upgrades.
       Increase in data storage capacity, memory and server capabilities

Number of full-time-equivalent personnel assigned to data center functions:
       2  

Indicate and explain briefly which of the following IVS Data Center functions
you will perform:

- Receive and archive raw data of the Astro/Geo Correlator Bonn
- Archive databases of own production and copied from analysis centers
- Archive IVS data products and provide public access to them via WWW


Attach a list of personnel (names and titles) whom you designate as IVS
Associate Members through their affiliation with your data center.
       Dr. Volkmar Thorandt (tbd)
       Dieter Ullrich (tbd)
       + 2 t.b.d.


Please provide any other information that you feel will be helpful in
demonstrating the capabilities of your data center to participate in the IVS.

Your signature on this form indicates your agreement to participate in the
IVS as a Data Center and to work closely with the IVS Coordinating Center. 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: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hermann Seeger, 
Title: Praesident and Professor des Bundesamtes fuer Kartographie und Geodaesie

Signature: ___H. Seeger_____________________________   Date: ____Sep. 21, 1998