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Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Ionosphere Vertical Total Electron Content (VTEC) Rapid Product from NASA CDDIS

Metadata Updated: February 3, 2025

This derived product set consists of Global Navigation Satellite System Rapid Ionosphere Vertical Total Electron Content (VTEC) product (daily files) from the NASA Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS). The VTEC product files also include Delay Code Bias (DCB) values for GNSS satellites and ground receivers derived during the analysis. GNSS provide autonomous geo-spatial positioning with global coverage. GNSS data sets from ground receivers at the CDDIS consist primarily of the data from the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Russian GLObal NAvigation Satellite System (GLONASS). Since 2011, the CDDIS GNSS archive includes data from other GNSS (Europe’s Galileo, China’s Beidou, Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System/QZSS, the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System/IRNSS, and worldwide Satellite Based Augmentation Systems/SBASs), which are similar to the U.S. GPS in terms of the satellite constellation, orbits, and signal structure. GNSS observations from a global network can be utilized for atmospheric measurements. Analysis Centers (ACs) of the International GNSS Service (IGS) retrieve GNSS data on regular schedules to produce independently computed VTEC maps. The IGS Ionosphere Analysis Center Coordinator (ACC) uses these individual AC solutions to generate the official IGS VTEC maps. The rapid VTEC maps are computed with a resolution of 2 hours in UT, 5 degrees in longitude and 2.5 degrees in latitude; they have an availability with a latency of 1-2 days.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date February 3, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date February 3, 2025
Publisher CDDIS
Maintainer
Identifier C1511762113-CDDIS
Data First Published 1998-01-01
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2025-01-30
Category IGS, geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
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Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Citation International GNSS Service, GNSS Rapid Daily Ionosphere Total Electron Content Grid Product, Greenbelt, MD, USA: NASA Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS), Accessed enter user data access date at doi:10.5067/GNSS/gnss_igsionortec_001
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Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/GNSS/GNSS_IGSIONORTEC_001
Metadata Type geospatial
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Program Code 026:001
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 58c44e05a6bf16dde97acd08e91b6d31444317c6e3b84d760035a89a2f17b97d
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z/2025-02-03T00:00:00Z

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