Subject: [IGSMAIL-5885]: IGS stations in the New Zealand region
From: John Beavan <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], Brendan Hodge <[email-masked]>, Kevin Fenaughty <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:09:27 +1300

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IGS Electronic Mail      15 Jan 13:09:31 PST 2009      Message Number 5885
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Author: John Beavan

Following Robert Kachikyan's recent announcement about CHTI, I'd like to 
provide more information on this station and on four other stations that 
were added to the IGS network last year. 

I encourage IGS analysis centers to include these sites in their 
processing and reprocessing efforts, especially as some of them have a 
long history.

The new stations (in addition to AUCK and CHAT which have been IGS 
stations since 1995) are:

WGTN, Wellington Airport
Data available at IGS data centers from 1999/359

MQZG, McQueen's Valley (near Christchurch)
Data available at IGS data centers from 2000/007

DUND, Dunedin GPS
Data available at IGS data centers from 2005/236

NIUM, Niue Meteorological Service
Data available at IGS data centers from 2005/258
Niue Island is located in the Pacific Ocean between Tonga and the Cook 
Islands.

CHTI,  Chatham Island North
Data available at IGS data centers from 2007/345  (available at CDDIS, but 
perhaps not yet at other centers)
20 km north of CHAT and installed on much better rock than CHAT. 
We intend to keep CHAT running as long as possible, but we expect that 
CHTI will eventually supercede CHAT as the IGS station on Chatham Island. 

WGTN, MQZG, DUND and CHTI are operated by GNS Science in partnership with 
Land Information New Zealand.
NIUM is operated by GNS Science in partnership with Ohio State University 
and the Niue Met Service.

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Dr John Beavan, GNS Science - Te Pu Ao, 
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