Hydroacoustic Training Course for National Data Centers (NDCs) with a Focus on Data Analysis

Application Procedure

Applicants are requested to register online at the Commission’s CTNW platform: https//ctnw.ctbto.org

NDC technical staff are invited to submit their applications for this training through established official channels (their Permanent Missions to the CTBTO or Ministries of Foreign Affairs).

Registration Form

Applicants are requested to use the enclosed registration forms, which are also available at https://www.ctbto.org/news-and-events/capacity-building-and-training. Applications will be reviewed and subsequently applicants will be notified.

However, pending the official nomination, participants may email the registration form upon its approval by a director of the institution, to allow timely travel and accommodation arrangements by the PTS.

Note – The applicants are encouraged to consider applying also to the “International Hydroacoustics Workshop 2026”

Financial Information

In accordance with the Staff regulations and rules and Administrative Directives, the PTS will provide the following:

• A round-trip ticket to Vienna on the most direct and economic route;
• Funded participants are not allowed to purchase their own tickets unless, under exceptional circumstances, they are authorized to do so in advance, and only if this proves to be the most cost effective option for the PTS;
• The PTS will book a hotel and cover the costs for the accommodation. Training participants will receive relevant portion of the Daily Subsistence Allowance (per-diem) via bank transfer upon arrival to the first day of the training course; and

Health and accident insurance will be provided for the duration of the training, including travel days.

Point of Contact

Capacity Building and Training Section (IDC/CBT)

International Data Centre Division

CTBTO Preparatory Commission

P.O. Box 1200, A-1400

Vienna, Austria

Tel: +43 1 26030 6147

Email: [email protected]

Agenda

• Hydrophone stations
• T stations
• Hydroacoustic theory
• Hydroacoustic data processing at IDC
• Analysts experience with processing Hydroacoustic data
• NDC-in-a-Box for Hydroacoustic data processing: retrieving data from VDMS, and reading for further processing with GeotoolQT and DTK-PMCC
• Hands-on GeotoolQT and DTK-PMCC for Hydroacoustic data processing
• Analysing and reproducing a hydroacoustic event from REB in NDC-in-a-Box

Other Information

Participants should apply for visas, if needed, as soon as possible, at the corresponding Embassy upon receipt of an Acceptance Note Verbale from the PTS, in order to ensure timely processing.