JADE-1403
             (Japanese Dynamic Earth observation by VLBI)
                           2014 March 13-14           
                 Notes prepared by GSI
                Geospacial Information Authority of Japan


Session JX1403
Start 2014-072 00:00:00 March 13
End   2014-072 23:53:17 March 14
Stations

Duration:      24 hours
Correlator:    TSUKUBA(GSI)
 
PURPOSE
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The purpose of the JADE sessions is to monitor the plate motion and 
the local crustal movement around Japan. 
In 2014 fiscal year, JADE session will be carried out once a month. 

NETWORK
=======
The standard configuration of the JADE projests consists of 
some stations. 

Code : Station

SCHEDULE
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This schedule was made by GSI using sked. 

Schedule setup parameters:
   Early start                     EA sec 
   Corr. tape sync time             sec 
   Minimum scan length              sec 
   Maximum scan length              sec
 Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans
     X-band (margin   3)     S-band (margin   3)
     Ai  Cc  Ts          Ai  Cc  Ts  
 Cc  15              Cc  13
 Ts  20  20          Ts  15  15
 Ud  20  20  20      Ud  15  15  15

Automatic scheduling setup: 
   optimize for uniform sky coverage at all stations,
   maximize the number of observations,
   minimize slewing time, 
   minimize time between scans, 
   consider the top 0 of ranked scans for selection, 
   consider the last 0 hour of scans for sky coverage calculations,
   minimum : min between scans on the same source.


The characteristics of the generated schedule are listed below. 
These will vary slightly for each schedule that is generated. 

Schedule characteristics:
   Average scan length              193 seconds
   Median SNR                        30 at X-band
                                     25 at S-band
   Number of observations           1086 observations
   Average scans per station        183 scans

FREQUENCY SEQUENCE      
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Chann#   Band    Skyfreq(MHz)     LOfreq(MHz)
 
APPENDIX
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   SKED Summary from file /opt/sked/skd_files/jx1403.skd for experiment JX1403  

      (all scans with at least one subnet station)


 Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) =   1.4
 Min =    0.0  Max =   25.6 (Baseline Ai-Ud on 0537-441)   RMS =   4.3

 Total time:       1437 minutes (  24.0 hours).

 Key:     Ai=AIRA       Cc=CHICHI10   Ts=TSUKUB32   Ud=USUDA64 
                   Ai   Cc   Ts   Ud  Avg  
 % obs. time:      73   74    9    8   41
 % cal. time:       0    0    0    0    0
 % slew time:       7    8    9   68   23
 % idle time:      19   18   81   24   36
 total # scans:   182  181  185  184  183
 # scans/hour :     8    8    8    8    8
 Avg scan (sec):  346  351   42   36  193
 # data tracks:    16   16   16   16
 # Mk5 tracks:     16   16   16   16
 Total GBytes:   1133 1143  141  120  634
 Total GB(M5):   1007 1016  126  107  564
 # of tapes :     1.0  1.0  1.0  1.0
 tape change times (hhmm):
                                                                                                                                                                
Total number of tapes:   4.0  Total GBytes (M5) recorded:  2255.8
      # OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE 
  |  Ai   Cc   Ts   Ud  StnTotal
------------------------------
Ai|      178  182  181     541      
Cc|           181  180     539      
Ts|                184     547      
Ud|                        545      


 Number of  2-station scans:    0
 Number of  3-station scans:    8
 Number of  4-station scans:  177

 Total # of scans, observations:   185     1086