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The Ionosphere Working group started the routine generation of the combine Ionosphere Vertical Total Electron Content (TEC) maps in June 1998. This has been the main activity so far performed by the four IGS Ionosphere Associate Analysis Centers (IAACs): CODE (Center for Orbit Determination in Europe, Astronomical Institute, University of Berne, Switzerland), ESOC (European Space Operations Center of ESA, Darmstadt, Germany), JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, U.S.A), and UPC (Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain). Independent computation of rapid and final VTEC maps is used by the each analysis centers: Each IAACs compute the rapid and final TEC maps independently and with different approaches including the additional usage of GLONASS data in the case of CODE.
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