IVS 2014 Annual Report
Call for Submission and Instructions
The IVS Directing Board invites all IVS components to submit reports for the IVS
2014 Annual Report. The 2014 Annual Report will cover the calendar year from January 1
through December 31, 2014.
Reports are due by January 31, 2015. The Annual
Report is a valuable way to document and communicate IVS' activities
within and outside the IVS community, and this value increases the earlier
the report is available. We hope to have the report ready for distribution
no later than two months after the deadline. Please help us to achieve this
goal by adhering to the deadline.
We continue to use the two-column format that was introduced with the Annual Report 2013 (AR2013),
as it allows more space for providing more information. The corresponding class and template files can be downloaded
from the IVS Annual Report ftp site's auxiliary directory
and the IVS Annual Report ftp site's example directory,
respectively. If you submitted a report last year, you can download the final .tex file
from the AR2013 ftp source file area and modify
it for the current year (instead of starting from the template).
New and/or critical information is distributed throughout this Web page, highlighted in red.
Even if you have submitted previous annual reports, please scan the page for this information.
The Annual Report will be published as a NASA Technical Publication. The reference
should be cited as follows:
International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry 2014 Annual Report,
edited by K. D. Baver, D. Behrend, and K. L. Armstrong,
NASA/TP-2015-??????, 2015. (NASA's publication office will provide the running
number represented by the six question marks, once the volume is finalized.)
As in previous Annual Reports, the publication will include reports from all components and Coordinators:
- Network Stations
- Operation Centers
- Correlators
- Data Centers
- Analysis Centers
- Technology Development Centers
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- Network Coordinator
- Analysis Coordinator
- Technology Coordinator
- Coordinating Center
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We will continue with the bibliography list.
So, please provide in addition to your report, a list of publications from the
calendar year 2014 that you would like included in the bibliography. Send your
list directly to
Other items of general interest to IVS will be included in the publication.
Please send the Coordinating Center any suggestions for
other articles to be included in the Annual Report.
Suggested topics include the following:
- Section 1: General Information.
Please provide general information about your component such as its location,
its sponsoring agency and what type of contribution you are making to IVS. If
you have a photograph of your antenna, correlator, analysis center, etc. you
should include it.
- Section 2: Component Description.
Please provide a technical/scientific description of your component
that is relevant to your component type: for example,
parameters of your network station's antenna,
capabilities of your correlation center's correlator, types of analysis
solutions that you do as an analysis center,
technology developments in progress at your technology development center, etc.
- Section 3: Staff. Please provide a list of your staff members who are
contributing to IVS, provide some information about them and indicate what each
person is working on.
- Section 4: Current Status and Activities.
Please provide information about the current status and activities of your component
during the reporting period, such as operational support, milestones reached, analysis
performed or ongoing projects. Please describe any significant changes compared to
the previous year's report, such as staffing changes, new equipment, changes in methods,
new types of results or a change in your activity level. You do not need to repeat
information already provided in the previous year's report.
- Section 5: Future Plans.
Please describe your plans for the coming year: scheduled operations, planned
activities, maintenance, upgrades, new equipment, new staff, new software development
or algorithms, new hardware arriving, etc.
Please use the following guidelines in preparing your report.
- Length. Component reports may be a maximum of four pages. The
limit will be strictly enforced for this publication. But the new
class file will produce two-column output, providing more space than the previous ivs2e.cls
class file did.
- LaTeX format. The required format for reports is LaTeX.
- Use of files.
Introduced with AR2013, we only support the class file
svmultivs.cls.
The required list of keywords and formatting styles, most of which are also listed below, are described in the
template file.
- Class and style files. Your tex file must reference the
svmultivs.cls document class.
Other available style files support
inclusion of figures,
floating figures,
bold math,
inclusion of html link references and
wrapping text around
floating objects.
- List of keywords. The svmultivs.cls
class file introduced with AR2013 requires a specific set of keywords, which are
listed below for your convenience. If you do not download and fill in
the template file or use
last year's report as a starting point, please ensure that your document uses
\documentclass[twocolumn,twoside]{svmultivs},
\maketitle, and \abstract{text}.
Keywords for documentclass 'svmultivs':
- \title*{} — the full title for the first page
- \titlerunning{} — a shortened title for other pages
- \author{} — listing of all authors for the first page,
use superscript institution numbering only if the authors come
from multiple institutions
- \authorrunning{} — abbreviated list of authors for other pages –
e.g., (single author) Behrend; (two authors) Behrend and Ma;
(three or more authors) Behrend et al.
- \authoremails{} — list of e-mail addresses for the authors
- \institute{} — list of the names of institutions that supported your
component and/or contributed to the report
- \component{} — identifier of your component,
such as Pulkovo Analysis Center
- \ContactAuthorName{} — name of the contact author
- \ContactAuthorTelephone{} — phone number of the contact author
- \ContactAuthorEmail{} — e-mail address of the contact author
- \NumberofInstitutions{} — number of institutions that supported your component
and/or contributed to your report
- \InstitutionPostAddress{n}{} — mailing address of institution n
- \InstitutionCountry{n}{} — country of institution n
- \InstitutionWebPage{n}{} — Web address of institution n
- Abstract. It is strongly suggested that your abstract include highlights of your
component's current activities and/or future plans. The correct way to specify an abstract is
\abstract{text}. The text of the abstract can be broken
into multiple lines in the source code (unlike stated in last year's template).
- Graphics format. The use of pictures and images is strongly encouraged to make the
publication more interesting. The preferred format for this publication is
encapsulated PostScript format.
The Coordinating Center will try to accommodate images in other formats by converting them to encapsulated
PostScript, but generation of the files as encapsulated PostScript or conversion of the files to encapsulated
PostScript at the components tends to produce higher quality figures. If you convert a
graphics file from a non-PostScript format (e.g., gif, jpeg, or tiff) to encapsulated PostScript, we request
that you also upload the original file. This may assist the Coordinating Center in solving
problems with PostScript graphics files that stem from the conversion.
The use of \begin{figure*}
figure code \end{figure*} will allow a figure to span
both columns of a page.
- Graphics colors.
PDF files of the individual component reports will be placed on the Web, and they support figures with colors.
But the printed version will be done in black-and-white only. So color-coded quantities on plots should also be
represented by some other scheme (e.g., symbol shape or size, dotted vs. straight lines). Please print your paper
in black-and-white to make sure that the graphics convey your desired information. Please also consider labelling
the color schemes in the plots' captions (e.g., "The red (dotted) line plots the values, and the blue (dashed)
line plots the sigmas.").
- Tables. The use of tables is encouraged to group information and break up the page text visually.
The use of \begin{table*}
tabular code \end{table*} will allow a table to span
both columns of a page.
- Mixing of one-column and two-column tables and figures.
The
svmultivs.cls class file is based on a class file that can have problems
mixing one-column and two-column tables and figures. The wrong combination may suppress
one or more tables or figures. Please check your final output carefully.
- Table and figure justification.
While the captions for both tables and figures should be left-justified, we ask that the objects
themselves be centered.
- Acknowledgements. If you want to acknowledge funding, contributions of
non-co-authors, or any other item, please add an acknowledgement section at the
end of your report. This section should be unnumbered and should thus be coded
as
\section*{Acknowledgements}.
- Template file.
A short template file,
ivs-ar-template.tex, is available.
- FAQs and Common Problems. A collection
of answers to frequently asked questions and common problems can be found on
the FAQs page.
If your component is submitting a report for the first time or if you want to change
the names of your files (e.g., from acgsfc.tex to acgoddard.tex),
please contact
to make sure that you do not use a name that another component is already using.
Due to security restrictions, the Coordinating Center can no longer provide a Web-based testing form.
Instead, please test your report on your local machine by downloading the files in the
style file directory into the same directory
on your local machine as your .tex and input PostScript files. Then, depending on your platform
and LaTeX installation, run the LaTeX compiler (e.g., latex your_file_name.tex)
successfully twice in a row. Running twice is necessary to convert all figure and table numbers from ?? to their final
values. Unconverted numbers can prevent you from seeing the final page count and the final arrangement of text
and figures. To view your compiled document, use a .dvi file viewer (e.g., xdvi
your_file_name.dvi) or convert the .dvi file to PostScript or PDF format for viewing
(e.g., dvipdfm your_file_name.dvi).
When you are ready to submit the final version of your report, please ftp to the entry
level of the IVS Annual Report ftp site at ftp://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/.
The user name is arincoming. For this year's password please contact
We recommend to use passive mode with ftp to reduce chances of hang-ups or upload failures.
When you log on, change directory to the "final" sub-directory using the cd final command
and then submit the final copies of your tex and input PostScript image files for the
official submission. The entry level directory is no longer writeable. Please do
NOT create an additional subdirectory under final for your submission, because this will
not be picked up automatically and your submission may not enter the processing stream.
You can
browse the submitted reports
on the IVS Annual Report Web site.
If you have problems or questions, please contact
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