Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:46:12 +1000 (EST) From: Paul Tregoning Message-Id: <200104300046.KAA22741@noah.anu.edu.au> To: igsmail@igscb.jpl.nasa.gov Subject: [IGSMAIL-3303]: New station, LAE1, in Papua New Guinea Cc: pault@rses.anu.edu.au, rcurly@rses.anu.edu.au, sjoshi@survey.unitech.ac.pg Sender: owner-igsmail Precedence: bulk ****************************************************************************** IGS Electronic Mail 30 Apr 08:51:23 PDT 2001 Message Number 3303 ****************************************************************************** Author: Paul Tregoning Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce a new IGS site, LAE1, in Papua New Guinea. The site is located at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Lae, and infills a gap in the IGS network in the western Pacific region. The site is operated by the Department of Surveying and Land Studies, UNITECH, and is running an Ashtech Z-XII3 with chokering antenna (no radome). We thank Unitech for operating the equipment and collaborators at University of California, Santa Cruz, whose GPS receiver is currently running at LAE1. The site commenced continuous operation in July 1997; however, it is only since November 2000 that we have had direct access to the data via an internet connection. Thanks go to Bob Curley and Sudarsan Joshi (Unitech) and Richard Stanaway (Australian National University) for instigating the autonomous downloading procedures. We are currently sending both daily and hourly files to cddis and a site log has been sent to IGS. Also, daily data files from 1 January, 2001 have been forwarded to cddis. Site photographs can be viewed at http://rses.anu.edu.au/external/unitech/ (under PNG Geodesy) and a time series of data analysed to date is available at http://rses.anu.edu.au/geodynamics/gps/png/lae1.gif We encourage users to take advantage of the data being made available. Kind regards, --Paul ----------------------------------------------------- Paul Tregoning Geodynamics Group Research School of Earth Sciences Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia Ph : +61 2 6125 5510 Fax : +61 2 6125 5443 email : pault@rses.anu.edu.au -----------------------------------------------------