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                              IGS DATA CENTER
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Short  Name                :  BKG

Institution                :  Bundesamt fuer Kartographie und Geodaesie
			      Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy

Function within IGS+EUREF  :  Regional Data Center for Europe

Mail Address               :  Bundesamt fuer Kartographie und Geodaesie 
                              Richard-Strauss-Allee 11
                              D-60598 Frankfurt Main, Germany

Contact                    :  Heinz Habrich  or  Kurt Herzberger
                            
Telephone                  :  +49-69-6333-267   or  +49-69-6333-259
                            
Fax                        :  +49-69-6333-245
                            
E-Mail                     :  habrich@ifag.de  or  hbg@ifag.de
                            
Internet Address           :  igs.ifag.de (141.74.254.123) alias no9.ifag.de
                            
Telnet Access              :  -
                            
FTP Access                 :  user: anonymous  password: <your e-mail address>
                            
WWW Access                 :  ftp://igs.ifag.de
                              http://igs.ifag.de
			      http://gibs.leipzig.ifag.de
                            
Access Restrictions        :
                            
Computer/Operating System  :  HP9000/C3000  UNIX B.10.20
                            
Amount of data on line     :  100 days, resp. 500 days
                            
Access to off-line data    :  Special arrangements
                              Extract requested site and epoch from file
                              IGS/obs/<year>/REPORTyy (see below) and mail
                              these records to hbg@ifag.de
                            
Other Important Information:

Report updated             :  2000.08.18  hbg
                            
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                          DIRECTORY STRUCTURE
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Directory                 Filenames           Description
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 indata                    Incoming GPS data from observing sites (temporary)
			   For near real time GPS observation use IGS/nrt/nrtin
 
 gpsdata/<SITE>         <SITE>ddd0.yyD.Z
			      Verified GPS observed data in Compressed_RINEX
			      format of the last 48 days.
                        <SITE>ddd0.yyS.Z
			      Quality_Check_File for each GPS obs_file in
			      BKG_QC format.
                        <SITE>ddd0.yyM.Z
			      METEO data in RINEX format
 gpsdata/NAV            IFAGddd0.yyN.Z
			      GPS navigation/ephemeris data 'IFAGddd0.yyN.Z'
	                      [ yy= year  ddd= day number ]

 EUREF           ------ Data of european sites ------

 EUREF/eurefin                link to indata

 EUREF/obs/<year>/<day>       Temporary storage of GPS data sets for <year> 
			      and permanent for data sets of the last 365 days

 EUREF/nrt                    near real time GPS observation data 
 EUREF/nrt/nrtin              link to IGS/nrt/nrtin
 EUREF/nrt/<day>/<hour>       temporary storage (7 days) of hourly 'nrt' files

 EUREF/products               link to EUREF/CLUSTERS
 EUREF/CLUSTERS/<gpsweek>     <EAC><gpsweek>7.SNX  <EAC><gpsweek>7.SUM
			      Results of regional european network solutions
			      [EAC = Analysis Centers (ASI,BEK,BKG,COE,IGN,..)]

 EUREF/station          <site>yymm.log   Site log files

 EUREF/eurefmail

 IGS             ------ Data of IGS sites ------

 IGS/igsin                    link to indata

 IGS/obs/<year>/<day>         Temporary storage of GPS data sets for <year>
                              and permanent for data sets of the last 365 days
 IGS/obs/<year>         contents.<year>     list of online available data sets 
 IGS/obs/<year>         REPORT<year>-CD     list of available CD-ROM data sets 

 IGS/nrt                      near real time GPS observation data 
 IGS/nrt/nrtin                input directory for near real time (nrt) data
 IGS/nrt/<day>/<hour>         temporary storage (7 days) of hourly 'nrt' files
 
 IGS/products/orbits          link to ORBITS

 IGS/station            <site>yymm.log   Site log files

 IGS/igsmail

 IGEX            ------ International GLONASS Experiment ------

 IGEX/igexin                  GLONASS+GPS data from observing sites (temporary)
 IGEX/station                 Site log files
 IGEX/obs/<year>/<day>        Permanent storage for data sets of the last 310 days
 IGEX/products                GLONASS orbits
 IGEX/iglosmail

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 ORBITS/<gpsweek>             CODE orbits and IGS orbits
 
 ITRF/<ITRFyy>                ITRF92, ITRF93, ITRF94, ITRF96, ITRF97
                              coordinates and velocities

 misc                         Programs and other miscellaneous utillities

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