Technical Meeting on Legacy Data from Nuclear Tests

  Vienna, VIC
  27 Sep 2023 - 29 Sep 2023

Objectives: 

In this workshop, researchers will discuss ongoing efforts to preserve recordings and metadata from historical nuclear tests and discuss how these data can be used to improve nuclear explosion monitoring.

Participants Profile:

Experts involved in recovering historical geophysics or radionuclide recordings and experts in the analysis of seismic data for nuclear explosion monitoring.

Please be informed that the Provisional Technical Secretariat (PTS) solicits presentations and posters from participants on the topics of the Workshop for travel funding applications. Financial support will be considered only for those who have submitted an abstract that will be accepted.


NDC Capacity Building: Waveform Training Course using SeisComP

  Vienna, VIC
  16 Oct 2023 - 20 Oct 2023

Objectives: 

To strengthen the capacity of the States Signatories’ participation in the verification regime and to enhance their use of PTS data and products for civil and scientific applications using SeisComP.

Participants Profile:


Expert Meetings on SS and ETA with Waveform Methods and RN and ATM Methods

  Daejeon, Republic of Korea
  16 Oct 2023 - 20 Oct 2023

Objectives for both Expert Meetings are: 

  • Refine the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for executing SS and ETA, and their associated templates, documents, and its list of (scientific) methods;
  • Discuss advances and introduce new approaches to scientific methods (for the respective technologies) which would be used during ETAs;
  • Provide an update on IDC preparations to be ready to execute SS and ETA;
  • Discuss the possible content of the reports, e.g., UEB/URR and SRMR reports;
  • Explore the possible use of various non-IMS data for SRMR;
  • Discuss Data Fusion options between RN and SHI events;
  • Advance the common understanding of the defined procedures.

    Participants Profile:

    • Experts from NDCs and research establishments involved in testing, applying, and developing waveform, radionuclide, or ATM methods that may be suitable for inclusion into the IDC automatic processing pipelines or may be applicable to Special Studies and Expert Technical Analysis.


    NDC Training Course - NDC Waveform Analyst course including Seiscomp

      Vienna, VIC
      06 Nov 2023 - 01 Dec 2023

    Objectives: 

    • Understanding the roles of National Data Centres in the verification regime;
    • Building and/or improving the National Data Centre capabilities;
    • Providing participants with sufficient knowledge for accessing and using IMS data and IDC products, and
    • Providing practical experience in analyzing IMS data.


    NDC training for Spanish Speaking NDCs

      San Jose, Costa Rica
      20 Nov 2023 - 24 Nov 2023

    The objectives are:

    • Understanding the roles of National Data Centres in the verification regime;
    • Building and/or improving the National Data Centre capabilities;
    • Providing participants with sufficient knowledge for accessing and using IMS data and IDC products;
    • Providing practical experience in analyzing IMS data.