====== Pre-Correlation ======

This page covers all activities that precede the actual running of correlation jobs.

==== Recipes ====

[[http://www.jive.eu/techinfo/worldmap/|Map on the wall Manual]]

[[http://www.jive.eu/correlator/local/label/label.php|Print VSN barcode labels]]

Experiment Preparation checklist [[http://www.jive.eu/~campbell/exprep.xfg.ps|(postscript)]] or [[http://www.jive.eu/~campbell/exprep.xfg.pdf|(pdf)]].

Pre- and post-observation operational flow diagram [[http://www.jive.eu/~campbell/opsflow.xfg.eps|(postscript)]] or [[http://www.jive.eu/~campbell/opsflow.xfg.pdf|(pdf)]].

The basics of preparing an experiment for correlation: [[CorrPrepFaq]]

==== Manuals ====


[[http://www.jive.eu/~jive_cc/doc_perl_php_scripts/setevlbi/setevlbidoc.html|eVLBI specification program]]

[[http://www.jive.eu/~jive_cc/doc_perl_php_scripts/updateftp/updateftp.html|Get station logfiles, gpsfiles and eopdata]]

[[http://www.jive.eu/~jive_cc/doc_perl_php_scripts/log2vex/log2vex.html|Compilation of vexfile by log2vex]]

[[http://www.jive.eu/~jive_cc/bobdoc/folders.3.ps|Pre-correlation]] (needs some updating -- rmc)

[[http://lupus.gsfc.nasa.gov/fsdoc/manuals/logpl.html|logpl (plots quantities from FS logs - installed on jaw0) documentation]]

[[http://www.jive.eu/~campbell/vex15b.pdf|Vex file definition/example]] document V.1.5b1 (30 Jan 2002)

[[http://www.jive.eu/~campbell/vexnpt15b.pdf|Vex Parameter Tables]] document v.1.5b1 (29 Jan 2002)

==== Descriptions ====


[[http://www.jive.eu/~campbell/LeipzL2H/L2H.html|The EVN MkIV Data Processsor at JIVE]] (circa 2003)

[[http://www.evlbi.org/user_guide/fov/|Field of View Calculations for the EVN Correlator at JIVE]]