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IUCAF,
EC-ICN, Infrastructure Cooperation Network in Radio Astronomy
MPIfR(Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie)
took place from 28th to 30th March, 2001
This page is under
construction. Some of the few contributions, which have reached IUCAF,
can be opened from here.
Wednesday, March 28th
10:00 opening of the workshop,
10:00 Welcome
10:10 Introduction, organisational matters, etc.
10:20 The Regulatory Environment session chair: Tom Gergely
10:20 Willem Baan: The regulatory environment (Rev.)
11:00 Cafe break
session chair: Willem Baan
11:20 Tom Gergely: The regulatory Zoo, or: regulations spanning VLA L-band
11:40 Klaus Ruf: Rec. 66
12:00 Stella Lioubtchenko: Computer simulation of interference effects on radioastronomical observations
12:20 cancelled
12:40 Lunch
14:00 Robust Receivers session chair: Rick Fisher
14:00 Arnold van Ardenne: Impact of RFI on system design (Rev.)
14:40 Russel Gough: Robust receivers, a system view
15:00 Carlo Rossolen: The new generation of robust receivers at Nancay
15:20 Tea break
session chair: Jim Cohen
15:40 F. Schilliro: Noto contribution to the LSF-RFI Robust Receiver Project
16:00 Valeri Altunin: RFI mitigation in space-based radio astronomy
16:20 Jerzy Usowicz: Evaluation tests of SE28 Monte
Carlo software
Thursday, March 29th
09:00 Practical Problems at Observatories session chair: Alan Roy
09:00 Rick Fisher: Multi-path measurements using 1.3 GHz radar signals received by the GBT
09:20 Vladimir Kaseko: Interference environment at Pushino Radio Observatory
09:40 Wolfgang Reich: Interference problems at the Effelsberg radio telescope
09:55 Ernst Fürst: Interference problems at the Effelsberg radio telescope (cont.)
10:10 Dave Graham: (no) RFI in VLBI
10:30 Cafe break
10:50 Digital Signal Processing and Algorithms session chair:Tasso Tzioumis
10:50 Peter Fridman: RFI mitigation with real-time DSP (Rev.)
11:30 Michael Kesteven: Post-correlation interference excission
11:50 Jim Cohen: COBRA, a digital receiver at Jodrell Bank
12:10 Steve Ellingson: OH burried under GLONASS brought back to live with DSP
12:30 cancelled
12:50 Lunch
14:00 Array Processing session chair: Michael Kesteven
2. measurements (RFI stationarity and suppression results) (AJB)
3. description of measurement system (AJB)
15:05 Peter Fridman: Phase-only RFI mitigation for tide-array configurations
15:25 Steve Ellingson: Practical limitations for null-formig using large wide-band arrays
15:45 Tea break
session chair: Steve Ellingson
16:05 Peter Fridman: Performance boundaries for radio astronomy arrays with RFI mitigation by spacial filtering
16:25 Grant Hampson: THEA RF beamforming calibration: results
16:45 Geoff Bower: RFI mitigation with RAP, the
Rapid Array Prototype
Friday, March 30th
09:00 Analog Filtering session chair: Ken Tapping
09:00 Reinhard Keller: Analog filtering (Rev.)
09:40 Prof. Chaloupka: HTSC filtering
10:00 Mike Davis: Characteristics of radio astronomy receivers relevant to the rejection of emissions in adjacent and near-by bands
10:20 cancelled
10:40 Cafe break
11:00 Monitoring standards and equipment session chair: Wim van Driel
11:00 Albert-Jan Boonstra: Radiofrequency monitoring: purpose, methods, and formats (Rev.)
11:40 Herold Dehling: Monte Carlo methods for measuring spectrum occupancy
12:00 Vincent Clerc: RFI monitoring and analysis at decameter wavelengths
12:20 Jader Monari: Sentinel II, a new system for RFI monitoring
12:40 Lunch
14:00 Conclusions of the workshop session chair: Klaus Ruf
14:00 All:
o foundation of IUCAF interference mitigation work,
o discussion of final report,
o identification of input to ITU-R WP7D