Schartner, M., Plötz, C., Kern, L. M., Klügel, T., Schwarz, W., Schüler, T., Böhm, J., & Soja, B. (2023). DACH Operation Center 2021–2022 Report (K. L. Armstrong, D. Behrend, & K. D. Baver, Eds.). NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center. https://doi.org/10.34726/5470
NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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Keywords:
scheduling; Monte Carlo simulations; VieSched++ software
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Abstract:
The Operation Center DACH is responsible for the IVS observing programs AUS-AST, IVSCRDS, IVS-CRF, IVS-INT-2, IVS-INT-3, IVS-INT-S, IVS-OHIG, IVS-T2, IVS-T2P, VGOS-INT-B, VGOSINT-C, VGOS-INT-S, VGOS-INT-Y, and VGOS-RD, as well as other research and development sessions. Together, this accumulated to 205 sessions in 2021 and 376 sessions in 2022. The vast majority of these sessions are scheduled fully automatically. Besides scheduling, OC DACH performs sophisticated quality control. The fully automated scheduling pipeline is operating based on Monte Carlo simulations and well-defined scientific goals for each session to reduce human biases.
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