About IVS

Working Groups: IVS Working Group on Product Specification and Observing Programs

Purpose
An important part of the IVS efforts is to provide the best products for the user community and to optimize the use of available global resources. During the 5th IVS Directing Board meeting on February 15th, 2001 the IVS products and related programs were discussed with respect to the general goals described above. It was decided to set up an IVS Working Group (WG2) for Product Specification and Observing Programs. Members of WG2 were chosen among experts in the field of geodetic/astrometric VLBI.

The Terms of Reference of WG2 are to

review the usefulness and appropriateness of the current definition of IVS products and suggest modifications,
recommend guidelines for accuracy, timeliness, and redundancy of products,
review the quality and appropriateness of existing observing programs with respect to the desired products,
suggest a realistic set of observing programs which should result in achieving the desired products, taking into account existing agency programs,
set goals for improvements in IVS products and suggest how these may possibly be achieved in the future,
present a written report to the IVS Directing Board at its next meeting.

Working Group 2 presented its final report at the 7th Directing Board meeting in Tsukuba, Japan, on February 3, 2002. The report was accepted and the Working Group was closed.

Report
Working Group report, A4 PDF
Working Group report, A4 Word format
Working Group report, letter PDF
Working Group report, letter Word format

Links to select references
IAU Resolutions

Working Group Members
Harald Schuh, Chair
Patrick Charlot
Hayo Hase
Ed Himwich
Kerry Kingham
Calvin Klatt
Chopo Ma
Zinovy Malkin
Arthur Niell
Axel Nothnagel
Wolfgang Schlueter
Kazuhiro Takashima
Nancy Vandenberg