SIMONSTOWN
Contributing agency
Station summarySIMO
| IGS-type acronym : | SIMO00ZAF |
| Latitude : | -34.18803600 |
| Longitude : | 18.43946700 |
| Installed date : | 2001-08-09 |
| Decommissioned date : | |
| Country : | SOUTH AFRICA |
| City: | SIMONSTOWN |
| Station status : | active (green) |
| Distance to Tide Gauge (m) : | 10 |
| Domes Nr.: | 30307M001 |
| Station operator: | Unknown |
| IGS-like station form : |
GPS position times seriesSIMO
(Reference epoch: )
| M | Material change or malfunction |
| E | Earthquake |
| RF | Reference Frame change |
| U | Unknown |
| NA | Not available |
| Position discontinuity | |
| Velocity discontinuity |
Data available at SONELSIMO
Quality plots on RINEX filesSIMO
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Plots generated using software developed with the EPN team at ROB |
| Observations & tracking performance | Satellite tracking |
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The satellite tracking graph has been calculated for all stations for the first day of each month. If you wish to have a graph for another date, choose the 'Calculate a specific date' option.
Co-located instrumentsSIMO
- Tide gauge : SIMON'S TOWN (SIMON)
Leveling & DatumsSIMO
Log bookSIMO
[IGSSTATION-7425] - 2018-10-04 (04/10/2018)
The following stations has been formally decommissioned from the IGS network because they are no longer active or have not provided data in many years.
KUNM - Kunming, China
GOUG - Gough Island, dependent territory of the U.K.
SIMO - Simonstown, South Africa
VESL - Vesleskarvet, Antarctica
Many thanks to the Yunnan Observatory, Shaanxi Observatory, JPL, and the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory for their contributions to the IGS.
06/01/2009: SIMO station down (26/01/2011)
IGSSTATION-2758: We are experiencing some equipment problems at the Simonstown, South Africa (SIMO) station. Unfortunately, data flow stopped on January 3rd around 01:00 UTC. Local personnel are working to repair the station (D. Maggert).
