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SuomiNet Project

SuomiNet is an NSF sponsored UCAR program to deploy over 100 research grade GPS receivers at universities and research centers accross the US and to some extent, globally. This network of receivers will provide realtime atmospheric precipitable water vapor measurements and other geodetic and meterological information. Each GPS receiver is able to have the following three capabilities:

  • Ionospheric TEC Observations
  • Tropospheric water vapor and temperature observations
  • Geodetic, high resolution position keeping

The USU GPS receiver, located at BLO, will have the first two of these three capabilities. All SuomiNet recievers are availiable to all researchers in real time via the Internet.