Subject: [SLR-Mail] No. 1988: Call for participation in the "System Automation" session of the
From: Alexander Neidhardt, Geodetic Observatory Wettzell <Alexander Neidhardt <neidhardt@fs.wettzell.de>>

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SLR Electronic Mail          2011-04-27 16:16:00 UTC           Message No. 1988 
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Author: Alexander Neidhardt, Geodetic Observatory Wettzell
Subject: Call for participation in the &#8221;System Automation&#8221; session of the

Dear colleagues,

as we currently plan the structure of the &#8221;System Automation&#8221; session of=20
the ILRS workshop at Wettzell in a few weeks, I would like to announce=20
for possible participations. Please find attached a preliminary schedule=20
idea. If any of you, who is participating the workshop or who want to=20
share information on behalf of, would like to give contribution, please=20
feel free to contact me under the email address neidhardt@fs.wettzell.de=20
or Chris Moore under cmoore@eos-aus.com.

Thank you and see you soon at Wettzell
Alexander Neidhardt

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Session =E2=80=9CSystem Automation=E2=80=9D:
(90 minutes)

=E2=80=9CWhat are we doing now? What should we be considering?
Organizers: Alexander Neidhardt (Germany),
Chris Moore (Australia),
Martin Ploner (Switzerland)

Automated operation and remote control, what are stations doing now?
What is being planned? What should we be doing?
Running two or more SLR systems at a time
Operating SLR and VLBI (autonomous, remote control, monitoring=E2=80=A6) =
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First ideas of a structure for the session:

- Introduction: Oral talk about ideas and general overview eventually
based on the ideas of the Wettzell software (5 min.)

- Usual operations as it is now (15 min.)
- Important operational issues during operations toward new
technologies
- Which strategies are used at the different sites
- General on-site quality checks

- New remote and shared-on-site possibilities (20 min.)
- Idea of
- Remote access by operators and remote attendance for operators
- Running more than one telescope on one site by one operator
(sharing)
- Access by external institutions
- General needs (e.g. standardized, comfortable GoNogo-Scenary),
possibilities and ideas, who should access
- Real-time quality feedback
- Optimizing the observation schedules (e.g. organize dedicated
orbit segment observations over different telescopes); Useful?

- Automation (20 min.)
- Idea of
- Strategies
- Existing solutions (Chris, e.g. somebody from Zimmerwald)
- Influences from optical telescopes (e.g. the Liverpool telescope
on the Canary Islands)

- Needs for safety and security (20 min.)
- Idea of
- Requirements on hardware
- Requirements on software
- Additional system monitoring with new possibilities for operation,
science&analysis and diagnostics

- GGOS and system overlapping, technical strategies (10 min.)
- Idea of
- Automation in the other services

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  Alexander Neidhardt, Dr. rer. nat
  Dipl.-Inf. Univ. Dipl.-Inf. (FH)
  Leiter der Betriebsgruppe Radioteleskop
  (Head of the radio telescope group)
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  Technische Universitaet Muenchen
  Forschungseinrichtung Satellitengeodaesie
  Geodaetisches Observatorium Wettzell
  Sackenrieder Str. 25
  D - 93444 Bad Koetzting

  Phone:          +49 (0) 9941 / 603-263
  FAX:            +49 (0) 9941 / 603-222
  Switchboard     +49 (0) 9941 / 603-0
  E-mail (office) neidhardt@fs.wettzell.de
  URL             http://www.fs.wettzell.de
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From: Alexander Neidhardt <neidhardt@fs.wettzell.de> 

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