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NASA’s Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS) archives Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) NGS data holdings.

DOI: 10.5067/VLBI/vlbi_ngs_data_001

Data Center Citation

Noll, Carey E., The Crustal Dynamics Data Information System: A resource to support scientific analysis using space geodesy, Advances in Space Research, Volume 45, Issue 12, 15 June 2010, Pages 1421-1440, ISSN 0273-1177, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2010.01.018.

Data Citation

CDDIS VLBI NGS data, Greenbelt, MD, USA: NASA Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS), Accessed [[enter user data access date]] at doi:10.5067/VLBI/vlbi_ngs_data_001.

Other standard citation formats may be used for this data set and can be found at the DOI Citation Formatter website.

More information about CDDIS data citations and acknowledgments is available.

Summary

  • Name: CDDIS VLBI NGS data available from the Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS)
  • Format: NGS Card
  • Spatial Coverage: 90.0 to -90.0, 180.0 to -180.0
  • Temporal Coverage: 1979 - 2020
  • Temporal Resolution:
  • File Size: Variable, ∼10KB
  • Platforms: Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)

Description

Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) ASCII files in the NGS card format.

Data Access

CDDIS VLBI NGS data files are online.

Starting directory: https://cddis.nasa.gov/archive/vlbi/ivsdata/ngs/

in subdirectories by year as follows: YYYY/YYCCCDDTT_N###.gz

CodeMeaning
YYYY4-digit year
YY2-digit year
CCC3-character month name
DD2-digit day of month
TT2-character suffix
###3-digit version number
gzgzipped file


Documentation

http://cddis.nasa.gov/Data_and_Derived_Products/VLBI/VLBI_data_and_product_archive.html