Permanent GPS station CRAO

Location

The permanent GPS station CRAO was founded on 27 April 2000 by the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. It was included to the Mediterranean GPS Network, University NAVSTAR Consortium (UNAVCO). The station is located near the Crimean SLR station SIMEIZ of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Simeiz, Crimea, Ukraine.

The station is equipped with the Rogue SNR-8000 receiver and Choke Ring (IGS code: AOAD/M_T)<.

Regular observations started on 27 April 2000. The results of the GPS observations are sent at regular intervals (once per day and once per hour) to the UNAVACO ftp-server. Then (after transformation to the Compact RINEX format) the results are sent to the IGS Global Data Center (CDDIS).

The GPS station CRAO was included to the Ukrainian permanent GPS network in 2000. This one has been a permanent station of the Mediterranean GPS Network since 2000. The GPS station CRAO was included to the International GNSS Service (IGS) in 12 October 2004. Also, station GLSV was included in European Permanent GPS Network (EPN).

Position

System:	ITRF2000
Epoch:	1/01/2004, 11h 59min 45sec, GPS time scale
Latitude:	44o 24' 47.734691"
Longitude:	33o 59' 27.535477"
Elevation, m:	365.7859
X, m:	3783897.1076
Y, m:	2551404.4055
Z, m:	4441264.2660
Identification
Subnetwork:	Mediterranean GPS Network, IGS
Station name:	Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
4-char ID:	CRAO
Tectonic Plate:	Eurasian
IERS DOMES Number:	12337M002
Collocation
Collocated technics:	Permanent SLR station SIMEIZ
Collocated meteorological instruments:	None

More information on some technical characteristics of the station you can find in the logfile .