The Eighth meeting of the Technical Development Center was held on
March 8, 1996 at the conference room of Kashima Space Research Center
of Communications Research Laboratory.
Kosuke Heki (National Astronomical Observatory),
Takashi Saito (Geographical Survey Institute),
Teruo Kanazawa( Hydrographic Department, Maritime Safety Agency),
Kazuo Shibuya (National Institute of Polar Research),
Yoshimitsu Okada( National Research Institute for Science and Disaster
Prevention),
Teruyuki Kato (Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo),
Following special members could not attend:
Nobuyuki Kawano (National Astronomical Observatory),
Noriyuki Kawaguchi (National Astronomical Observatory),
Hisashi Hirabayashi (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science),
Agenda
1. Opening address by Fujinobu Takahashi, director of the Standards and Measurements
Division, CRL
2. Reorganization of the IERS VLBI
3. Activity reports by the special members
4. Antarctica VLBI and Asia Pasific VLBI
5. Data publication format and coordinate system
6. Technical reports
6.1 Keystone project
6.2 Other technical development activities
7. Closing address by Shingo Ohmori, director of the Kashima Space
Research Center, CRL
Technical Development Center (TDC) at the Communications Research Laboratory
(CRL) is supposed to do
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.
The TDC meeting, attended by the ordinary members from inside the CRL
and the special members from the outside, is held twice a year. The
special members advise the committee, concerning the plan of technical
developments. The TDC newsletter is published biannually by CRL to
inform the IERS community its current activities.
This news was edited by Tetsuro Kondo and Yasuhiro Koyama, Kashima Space Research Center,
who are editorial staff members of TDC at the Communications Research
Laboratory, Japan. The editors wish to thank
Dr.O.J.Sovers for his kind help in the correction of the news translated
from Japanese to English.
