CONTENTS

• Overview of the Seventh TDC Meeting
• Minutes of the IRIS Subcommission Meeting Held During the IUGG XXI General Assembly
• Technical Reports
  • Current Status of the Key Stone Project
  • The Results in the Daily Observation in the Crustal Deformation Monitoring System in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area
  • Real Time VLBI Plan in the Key Stone Project
  • Status Report of the CRL 34m Antenna at Kashima
  • The Next Generation Giga-bit VLBI Terminal
  • Pulsar VLBI Kashima(Japan)-Kalyazin(Russia) Pulsar VLBI Experiment in 1995
  • UT1 Prediction Improvement Using AAM Data for Daily VLBI Baseline Analysis
  • Atmospheric Path Delay Correction Based on the Numerical Prediction Data

Overview of the Seventh TDC Meeting

Attendance

Fujinobu Takahashi, Taizoh Yoshino, Michito Imae, Hiroo Kunimori, Shin'ichi Hama, Chihiro Miki, Akihiro Kaneko, Toshimichi Otsubo, Hideyuki Nojiri, Shingo Ohmori(KSRC: Kashima Space Research Center), Yukio Takahashi(KSRC), Takahiro Iwata(KSRC), Hiroshi Takaba(KSRC), Noriyuki Kurihara(KSRC), Ryuichi Ichikawa(KSRC), Mamoru Sekido(KSRC), Yasuhiro Koyama(KSRC), Yuko Hanado(KSRC) Junichi Nakajima(KSRC), Tadahiro Gotoh(KSRC), Tetsuro Kondo(KSRC)

Takashi Saito(Geographical Survey Institute), Teruo Kanazawa(Hydrographic Department, Maritime Safety Agency), Kazuo Shibuya(National Institute of Polar Research),

Nobuyuki Kawano(National Astronomical Observatory), Noriyuki Kawaguchi(National Astronomical Observatory), Teruyuki Kato(Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo), Hisashi Hirabayashi(Institute of Space and Astronautical Science), Yoshimitsu Okada(National Research Institute for Science and Disaster Prevention)

Agenda

1. Opening address by Fujinobu Takahashi, director of the Standards and Measurements Division, CRL
2. Policy of VLBI technical development center at CRL
3. Activity reports by the special members
4. Report of IRIS meeting
4. Technical reports
5. Technical reports
5.1 Keystone project
5.2 Other technical development activities
6. Proposal of R\&D experiments
7. Closing address by Shingo Ohmori, director of the Kashima Space Research Center, CRL

1) the development of new observation techniques and new systems for advanced Earth's rotation observations by VLBI and other space techniques,
2) the promotion of research in Earth rotation by advanced methods in VLBI,
3) the distribution of new VLBI technology.

This news was edited by T. Kondo, Kashima Space Research Center, who is the current representative of TDC at the Communications Research Laboratory, Japan. The editor wishes to thank Dr.O.J.~Sovers for his kind help in the correction of the news translated from Japanese to English.

Inquires on this issue should be addressed to:

               T. Kondo
               Kashima Space Research Center
               Communications Research Laboratory
               893-1 Hirai, Kashima, Ibaraki 314, Japan

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