GNSS Stations of the World

Every station in the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory inventory, with the ITRF2020 reference sites as gold stars. Click a dot for its record.

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Draw a rectangle or polygon on the map (the tools under the zoom buttons). The stations inside are listed with their record on a shared year axis; untick the ones you do not want, then download.

Where the data come from

Stations, positions, first and last day, solution counts: the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory (NGL) data holdings, geodesy.unr.edu (snapshot of …). Cite Blewitt, Hammond & Kreemer (2018), Harnessing the GPS data explosion for interdisciplinary science, Eos 99, doi:10.1029/2018EO104623.
IGS network membership: the International GNSS Service station list, network.igs.org.
NOAA CORS: stations present in the National Geodetic Survey's public archive, geodesy.noaa.gov/CORS.
ITRF2020 sites (gold stars): the ITRF Centre at IGN (Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière), release …, itrf.ign.fr. A site is an IERS DOMES site; a core site hosts all four techniques (GNSS, VLBI, SLR, DORIS) and counts as active when all four have data in the last year of the release (to …). Cite Altamimi, Rebischung, Collilieux, Métivier & Chanard (2023), ITRF2020: an augmented reference frame refining the modeling of nonlinear station motions, Journal of Geodesy 97:47, doi:10.1007/s00190-023-01738-w.
Basemaps: Esri and OpenStreetMap contributors, as credited on the map.
The list and its downloads come from this inventory alone: the bar is each station's first-to-last day, shaded by the share of days with a solution. Month-by-month availability is not shown here.
This is a public view of the station picker in Earth Access GNSS Tools.