KVIS on Tjörnes Peninsula

KVIS is the sixth GPS station in North Iceland, and it is located near the Kvíslarhóll farm on Tjörnes Peninsula, north of Húsavík (66.10074N, 17.27167W). The quadrupod was installed above an already established benchmark, NE 9505, which has been used by Thierry Villemin & Co. during several campaign GPS surveys. The receiver gets power from the farm (in the background) along a 400 m long cable. This station has been collecting data since 26 September 2006.

-Sjonni

FTEY in Flatey

FTEY is our fifth new station in North Iceland, and it is located on Flatey Island, just north of the Husavik-Flatey fault (66.16031N, 17.84793W). On the picture one can see Thorgils, Sævar (who took us there on his boat and helped us with the setup), Sjonni and Janik, behind the antenna. Here we used a PBO-style setup, with four steel rods that were cemented into shallow drillholes and welded together at the top. There is no good bedrock on Flatey, but under about 1 m of soil, there are some consolidated sediments that appeared stable, at least it wasn't too easy to drill into them. The receiver gets power from a nearby IMO windpower generator that was set up a few years ago for a seismometer nearby. We also hope to use the already established seismic-data radiolink from Flatey to Husavik mountain for the GPS data. This station has been collecting data since 25 September 2006.

-Sjonni

GRAN near Granastaðir

The fourth new station to be introduced in North Iceland is GRAN, which is located near Granastaðir Farm in Kalda-Kinn (65.91864N, 17.57862W). The receiver gets power from a nearby IMO seismometer. I´m sorry that I only have a picture of the foundation without the antenna, but it is there now, and the GRAN receiver has been collecting data since 19 September 2006.

SIFJ in Siglufjordur

The third new station to be introduced in the North Iceland network is SIFJ, which is located just east of the the town of Siglufjordur (66.13792N 18.89896W). The power comes from a house that is ~250 m away and the instrument itself is in the box on the quadrupod. We're planning a wire-less datalink to one of the houses on the other side of the fjord. When I fired up my laptop at the site, I could detect at least four different wireless networks! This site has been collecting data since 23 September.

KOSK in Kópasker

KOSK is the one of the new stations in the North Iceland sub-network and is located in the village of Kópasker. The coordinates of this station are 66.30325N, 16.44343W
and it has been collecting data since 18 September, 2006.

-Sjonni

Hekla receivers in Penn State

I just got news that Peter LaFemina now has his hands on the 5 NetRS receivers for the Hekla network. The plan is to install them in October.

-Halldor

North Iceland CGPS installation completed and the first station GAKE described

We have finished the setup of 10 new CGPS sites in North Iceland, nine instruments are already collecting data, while one instrument will be kept in Reykjavik for a few weeks for further tests. All the sites are logging at 15 secs and are doing so remotely. The data link will be installed in the coming months. The fieldwork was carried out by Sigurjon Jonsson, Janik Deutscher, Thorgils Ingvarsson, Halldor Geirsson, and Jeudicael Decriem.

In the following posts during the next days I will introduce the sites with a picture. The first one is Garður in Kelduhverfi (GAKE; 66.07808N, 16.76467W), see picture above, which has been collecting data since September 18, 2006.

-Sjonni