SuomiNet Deployment and Equipment Information

SuomiNet is an international network of GPS receivers, configured and managed to generate near real-time estimates of precipitable water vapor in the atmosphere, total electron content in the ionosphere, and other meteorological and geodetic information.

SuomiNet Participation Procedure

• Site List

SuomiNet Site Installation Instructions

• Connect the GPS Receiver and Computer Using These Instructions
• Installation questions? Contact Maggie Sleziak.
• Notify the UCAR SuomiNet Data Analyst Teresa VanHove when the system is connected and on-line. Include the computer IP address.

How to Access SuomiNet Data

• Geodetic data can be accessed via FTP from the UNAVCO Data Archive, as daily RINEX files.
• SuomiNet participants can access their site data, and data from other SuomiNet sites by subscribing to the LDM service from UCAR. A separate computer is required to run LDM, since the SuomiNet computer is for data collection only.
• Participants may also directly access data from their own site via LDM. A separate computer is still required to run LDM, since the SuomiNet computer is for data collection only.

SuomiNet Equipment Information

• Configurations
• GPS Receiver
• GPS Antenna
• GPS Antenna Cable
• GPS Antenna Monument
• Meteorological Package
• System Computer
• SuomiNet Network Rules
• University Cost-Share Equipment

Additional SuomiNet Information

• UNIDATA SuomiNet Page
• GPS Receiver and Antenna Testing Report for SuomiNet (.pdf file)
• Trimble SuomiNet Press Release
• UNAVCO Submission to American Meteorological Society (AMS) UNAVCO Support for SuomiNet, a GPS Network for Atmospheric Sensing (.pdf file)
• SuomiNet Efforts in the US Southern Great Plains (.pdf file)
• GPS Sensed Small Scale Water Vapor Variability in the Southern Great Plains (Power Point Slide)
• Impact of GPS-Based Water Vapor Fields on Mesoscale Model Forecasts (Power Point Slide)