1 / 15

Remote GPS Station at Langhovde, Antarctica

Installation and Performance of a Remote GPS Station in Dronning Maud Land, providing continuous observation data in the challenging Antarctic environment since 2000.

gsallie
Download Presentation

Remote GPS Station at Langhovde, Antarctica

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Remote GPS Station at Langhovde, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica Hiromichi TSUJI and Kenichi MATSUO* Geographical Survey Institute, Japan *JARE43 summer party member AGP'02 at LINZ, Wellington

  2. Contents • Background • Geodesy programs under JARE • IGS station at Syowa from 1995 • Needs of Remote GPS station • Installation at Langhovde in Jan 2000 • Performance by Feb 2002 AGP'02 at LINZ, Wellington

  3. JARE program • Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition started in 1956 in response to IGY • Organized by National Institute of Polar Research • Funded by Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture • Syowa Station established in 1957 • On the East Ongul Island, the Eastern Dronning Maud Land (Lon. 39.58°, Lat. -69.01° ) • Observation parties stationed at Syowa • Summer party: 5 months from Nov with 20 staff • Wintering party: 17 months from Nov with 40 staff AGP'02 at LINZ, Wellington

  4. Geodesy and Geographic Programs under JARE • Planned & Implemented by • Geographical Survey Institute (GSI) for Geodesy, Photogrammetry, and Cartography • Hydrographic and Oceanographic Information Department (former JHD) for Charting and Tide gauge observation, and • National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) for Geosciences and Place names • Programs include • GPS, VLBI, and Remote sensing • Global Mapping (1:1M digital data) AGP'02 at LINZ, Wellington

  5. SYOG IGS Global Tracking Network http://igscb.jpl.nasa.gov/netwok/netindex.html AGP'02 at LINZ, Wellington

  6. GPS and VLBI antennasat Syowa station VLBI GPS (IGS ID: SYOG) AGP'02 at LINZ, Wellington

  7. Needs of Remote GPS station IGS station Continuous deformationobservation GPS controlpoint surveys Remote GPS station Crustal deformation surveys around bare rock areas AGP'02 at LINZ, Wellington

  8. RGS at Langhovde • GSI installed a remote GPS station at Langhovde in January 2000. • A built-in battery and wind / solar power plant enable continuous GPS observation at a remote site, 27 km south of Syowa base. • Currently, data with 120 seconds interval are stored in PC and retrieved by GSI staff once per year. AGP'02 at LINZ, Wellington

  9. Eastern Dronning Maud Land Location SYOG LANG AGP'02 at LINZ, Wellington

  10. Specification of RGS(LANG) Unit Name of equipment Specification GPS receiver Trimble 4000SSi-RC2 L1/L2, 10.5W, - 20-75C° Wind power Windside FM910 (2) Propeller-type, Supply 75W(10m/s) Solar power KYOCERA KC60S(12) 60W, - 40 - 90C° Supply Battery SBS-300 (12) 300AH, 2V, 20kg, - 40 - 60C° Data collector XC6000-D-16 (2) OS: Windows 3.1 486XL50MHz, HD 340MB 10W, - 20 - 60C° AGP'02 at LINZ, Wellington

  11. Outlook of RGS(LANG) Solar panels & Receiver unit AGP'02 at LINZ, Wellington

  12. Wind power generator & Antenna Pillar AGP'02 at LINZ, Wellington

  13. AGP'02 at LINZ, Wellington

  14. Log of RGS(LANG) • Jan 2000 Installed • Feb 2001 First data retrieval • No data during mid May to mid August 2000 due to a malfunction of a battery charger connected to the wind power generator • Feb 2002 Second data retrieval • No data during mid May and early August 2001 due to a malfunction of the wind power generator • Repair of the wind power generator • Exchange of batteries AGP'02 at LINZ, Wellington

  15. Baseline length between SYOG and LANG (27km) • Preliminary solutions by Trimble Geomatic Office (TGO) with Broadcast Eph. AGP'02 at LINZ, Wellington

More Related