HAUD online

Site HAUD (Haukadalur) is now online. No more "manual ftp" for this site. It transmits the data to the seismic computer at Haukadalur (appr. 500 meters) using Straightcore radios. From Haukadalur the GPS data stream joins the seismic data with Freewaves to Búrfell (about 14 km).
2 Straightcore access points have been installed at Búrfell for the Hekla network.

-Halldor

new login

Because Blogger merged with gmail we have a new login "isgpskerfi@gmail.com" with the old password still active!

cheers
Dori

summer - birds

The summer birds are arriving for installations and maintance. Pete arrives tomorrow along with Sigurjon and Austin arrives on Monday.

FTEY in a mess

Site Flatey (FTEY) was in a bad state this week when it was visited. Water had gotten into the box and flooded the receiver :( Now a NetRS is running there instead of the Septentrio.

SAUR on-line

Site SAUR is now transmitting (15sec) data to Reykjavik, joining the sites NYLA and KRIV. We have almost decided what wifi gear to use... If the gear at SAUR keeps up the good work we will be using that.
-HG

Site visit and download

Hi all.
Just adding to the New Years news. My brother Kari went to the HLFJ site this weekend and downloaded all the data from it. In short everything is working perfectly and there are no data gaps. I will post some new pictures of the site and some timeseries (once analyzed) on the HLFJ website:
http://geo.arizona.edu/~sigrun/iceland/HLFJ.html

Also the site HVEL was visited in January and everything was working but no data were downloaded at the time.

Sigrun

New Year's news

It has been some time since the last blog, so I will try to give a short update on what has been happening in the 1-Hz CGPS project.
Although I did not attend the AGU meeting I heard that it went allright, and that a general interest was in the project. My 1-Hz Iceland poster presented at AGU can be downloaded from here. I will be attending the EGU meeting in Vienna with a similar presentation. A few of the 1-Hz Iceland group will be attending that meeting.
Sigurjon went to visit the stations in north Iceland during the Christmass time. He wisited 6 stations and all of them were running and collecting data. However, it turned out that Septentrio's sbf format is considerably more space consuming than the Trimble format, causing the receivers to fill up much quicker than we anticipated. This puts some pressure on getting the stations on-line.
The budget has been an issue within IMO, and it looks like it is quite tight. But we are not overspending - yet!
Both UofA and PSU sent in applications to NSF related to this project. UofA seeks to improve the geodetic research in central Iceland and PSU seeks to do geodetic research in the eastern volcanic zone. Both applications involve semi-permanent GPS sites.
A new site (Kalfholt - KALT) in the south Iceland seismic zone, started collecting data just before noon today, January 18, 2007. Very approximate coordinates are 63.89735 -20.65608. In total there are about 47 CGPS sites collecting data in Iceland today!

-HG

HOTJ on Tjörnes

I apologize for dominating the blog during the last few weeks by introducing new stations, but I'm almost done! Here comes the 9th station, HOTJ or Hóll on Tjörnes peninsula. This station is located between the older Árholt (ARHO) and the new Kvíslarhóll (KVIS) stations, between the farms of Hóll and Ísólfsstaðir (66.16167N, 17.24427W). This station gets power from the nearby farm of Hóll via 400m long cable that laid into the ground (not by hand!). This station has been collecting data since 22 September, 2006.

-Sjonni

Hekla sites installed!

During November 6-9 we got 5 sites around Hekla up and running. The monuments were already installed last spring and in this trip we installed the wind generators and the receivers (all NetRS). The sites need to be visited once more to install the communications. The sites installed were MJSK, GLER, NORS, HEKR and HESA (see map). We also installed a monument at BRDK, but that site is (at the moment) planned as a semi-continuous site. A monument was installed at HAUK last week by Þorgils and Judicael. Pete will post the details for each site in the next few sites as he was the photo master of the trip (along with doing the drilling and carrying all the heavy stuff!).
View map.