VAASA
Contributing agency
Station summaryVAAS
| IGS-type acronym : | VAAS |
| Latitude : | 62.96120071 |
| Longitude : | 21.77059937 |
| Installed date : | 1995-04-07 |
| Decommissioned date : | |
| Country : | FINLAND |
| City: | VAASA |
| Station status : | active (green) |
| Distance to Tide Gauge (m) : | 20000 |
| Domes Nr.: | 10511M001 |
| Station operator: | (FGI-NLS) - Finnish Geospatial Research Institute, National Land Survey of Finland |
| IGS-like station form : |
GPS position times seriesVAAS
(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 SONELVAAS
Quality plots on RINEX filesVAAS
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Plots generated using software developed with the EPN team at ROB |
| Observations & tracking performance | Satellite tracking |
(this operation may take 20 to 45s)
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.
Comparison with satellite altimetry data
- Link to Sea Level Differences (Satellite altimetry minus tide gauge data).
Photo albumVAAS
Log bookVAAS
[EUREFmail-09951] - 2019-08-20 (26/09/2019)
VAAS station is temporarily offline due to electricity break down since today DOY 232.
[EUREFmail-9002] - 2017-05-03 (03/05/2017)
Many of the Finnish stations (FINS, KILP, KIV2, MET3, METS, OUL2, ROM2, VAA2, VAAS, VIR2) are unfortunately offline due to a connection issue. We expect a quick fix and apologize for the missing data.
[EUREFmail-8917] - 2017-02-22 (22/02/2017)
The VAAS station (as well as the proposed VAA2 station) is currently offline due to network issues. We expect a quick fix and apologize for missing data.
[EUREFmail-8782] - 2016-11-07 (01/12/2016)
the Finnish EPN stations METS, VAAS, JOEN and SODA are temporarily offline due to an issue with the old ASHTECH's receivers. We apologize for the inconveniences. We will inform you later for the further actions.
[EUREFmail-8809]: 2016-11-24 (24/11/2016)
I am glad to inform that the Finnish EPN stations are online again. Receivers for VAAS, JOEN and SODA have been replaced with JAVAD Delta receivers during last couple of days. The site logs have been updated respectively. (The METS receiver was changed already earlier, see mail no 8795). No data was gathered between Nov-06-2016 and the day of the receiver change.
[EUREFmail-7896]: 2015-04-17 (29/05/2015)
UPS hardware failure has occurred in station VAAS. Hardware failure began at 16:20 4/16/2015. Failure will be fixed as soon as possible.
[EUREFmail-7531]: 2014-07-16 (24/07/2014)
Due to a thunderstorm, VAAS (Vaasa, Finland) is down. It will be fixed as soon as possible.
[EUREFmail-6686]: 2012-11-08 (09/11/2012)
VAAS station is now running again after network problems. All available
daily data from DOY290-310 has been submitted. Some data was unfortunately lost, DOY295-309 are completely lost, DOY295 misses letters U-X and DOY310 misses letters A-M.
