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Permanent GPS network in Belgium
Permanent GPS network in Belgium
Inclusion of the permanent station in international observation networks
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The station JALH (Jalhay) is operational since 04/10/2006 (GPS week 1370)
and replace the station MEMB (Membach) which was active from GPS week 913 to 1172.
The Belgian 0-order GPS network (BEREF), that falls under the responsibility of the National Geographic Institute (NGI) is also based on the 4 ROB stations: Brussel, Dentergem, Dourbes and Waremme.
As a direct consequence, they are also included into the IERS network and their coordinates are known with cm-accuracy in the International Terrestrial Reference System. The coordinates of the stations are recomputed each year and are know as the ITRF92,ITRF93, ..., ITRF97, ITRF2000 realisations.
The last coordinates obtained in this way are known as the ITRF2000 coordinates. Their values are available on the web-site in the table that includes the coordinates of all the IERS stations.
You can find here more details about the different international reference systems (ITRS, ETRS89, WGS84).
The RINEX data files are available on-line for the stations Brussels, Dentergem, Dourbes and Waremme:
These programs and additional readme files are available at: ftp://epncb.oma.be/epncb/software.
Off-line data are made available in ftp://epncb.oma.be/gps_rob/data/requests after directing a request to: Dominique Mesmaker or Robert Laurent.
Older ephemerides can be retrieved from the Federal Office of Karthography and Geodesy (BKG, Frankfurt, Germany) at: ftp://igs.ifag.de/IGS/obs/.
The programs to uncompress the files are available at : ftp://epncb.oma.be/epncb/software/.
In addition to the broadcast ephemerides, BKG is also making available the precise IGS satellite orbitsb in the SP3 format. The high accuracy of these precise orbits makes especially suitable for high accuracy applications.
The following file name conventions are used to denominate the broadcast and precise satellite orbits files:
Our server refuses access to our data if you do not have a DNS. Your internet provider or system administrator can resolve this problem. Contact C.Lippens@oma.be for more details.
If, after a few years, the scientific objectives of the ROB are achieved, the maintenance of the six stations, next to Brussels, will depend on the interest of the user community.
Inclusion of the permanent station in international observation networks
Download observation data
Download navigation data
Click on the station on the map to see the detailed information sheet for this station
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The station JALH (Jalhay) is operational since 04/10/2006 (GPS week 1370)
and replace the station MEMB (Membach) which was active from GPS week 913 to 1172.
The Belgian 0-order GPS network (BEREF), that falls under the responsibility of the National Geographic Institute (NGI) is also based on the 4 ROB stations: Brussel, Dentergem, Dourbes and Waremme.
Inclusion of the permanent station in international observation network
The station Brussels belongs to the IGS network
since 1993. The stations Dentergem, Dourbes and Waremme all belong since
January 1996 to the European permanent network
EUREF.As a direct consequence, they are also included into the IERS network and their coordinates are known with cm-accuracy in the International Terrestrial Reference System. The coordinates of the stations are recomputed each year and are know as the ITRF92,ITRF93, ..., ITRF97, ITRF2000 realisations.
The last coordinates obtained in this way are known as the ITRF2000 coordinates. Their values are available on the web-site in the table that includes the coordinates of all the IERS stations.
You can find here more details about the different international reference systems (ITRS, ETRS89, WGS84).
Download observation data
The RINEX data files are available on-line for the stations Brussels, Dentergem, Dourbes and Waremme:
- tracking interval of 30 seconds : (on-line for 6 months)
- Daily files
ftp://epncb.oma.be/gps_rob/data/rinex/daily
available the day after observation - Hourly data files
ftp://epncb.oma.be/gps_rob/data/rinex/nrt
available a few minutes after the hour
- Daily files
ftp://epncb.oma.be/gps_rob/data/rinex/daily
- tracking interval of 10 seconds : (on-line for 10 days)
ftp://epncb.oma.be/gps_rob/data/rinex10/nrt
(hourly files)
- a UNIX-based uncompress program (available for different OS)
- a RINEX-specific uncompress program (available for different OS)
These programs and additional readme files are available at: ftp://epncb.oma.be/epncb/software.
Off-line data are made available in ftp://epncb.oma.be/gps_rob/data/requests after directing a request to: Dominique Mesmaker or Robert Laurent.
Download observation data
Broadcast navigation ephemerides are available in the
RINEX format
at ftp://epncb.oma.be/gps_rob/data/ephem.Older ephemerides can be retrieved from the Federal Office of Karthography and Geodesy (BKG, Frankfurt, Germany) at: ftp://igs.ifag.de/IGS/obs/.
The programs to uncompress the files are available at : ftp://epncb.oma.be/epncb/software/.
In addition to the broadcast ephemerides, BKG is also making available the precise IGS satellite orbitsb in the SP3 format. The high accuracy of these precise orbits makes especially suitable for high accuracy applications.
The following file name conventions are used to denominate the broadcast and precise satellite orbits files:
| The broadcast ephemerides : |
IFAGddd0.yyN ddd: day of the year yy : year |
| The precise ephemerides : |
IGSwwwwd.SP3 wwww : GPS week d : day in GPS week (o=Sunday) |
Our server refuses access to our data if you do not have a DNS. Your internet provider or system administrator can resolve this problem. Contact C.Lippens@oma.be for more details.
If, after a few years, the scientific objectives of the ROB are achieved, the maintenance of the six stations, next to Brussels, will depend on the interest of the user community.