The British Isles GPS archive Facility (BIGF), is a NERC-funded Facility
operated by the IESSG at the University of Nottingham.
The aim of BIGF is to provide a central long-term repository of GPS data
recorded by continuously operating GPS receivers at stations sited
throughout the British Isles, including those of the Ordnance Survey.
These data are in turn provided to the scientific community in the UK
and elsewhere, to carry out research, whether for short-term purposes such
as weather forecasting, ad hoc marine or land survey control, vehicle and
wildlife tracking, or the longer term, involving the extraction of
environmental or physical signatures buried within the data.
The archive currently holds data from a network of close to 60 stations,
some with records as far back as 1996, owned by DEFRA, the Environment
Agency, the Met Office, the Ordnance Survey, the National Physical
Laboratory, NERC Space Geodesy Facility, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory,
the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the University of Nottingham.
Since its inception in 1998 the archive has supplied over 150,000 site-days
of data to scientific users with many diverse applications.
Database queries and requests for data are via a dedicated website.
Please visit http://www.bigf.ac.uk
Dr David Baker
BIGF Manager
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