NovAtel Announces GPStation-6 GNSS Ionospheric Scintillation and TEC Monitor Receiver
September 22, 2011
NovAtel Inc., supplier of GNSS receivers, antennas, and sub-systems, announced the GPStation-6 GNSS Ionospheric Scintillation and TEC Monitor (GISTM) receiver. This specialty GNSS receiver is designed for ionospheric monitoring and space weather applications. The announcement was made at ION-GNSS 2011 in Portland, Oregon.
The GPStation-6 receiver integrates NovAtel’s OEM628 measurement engine with a high-quality low phase-noise oven-controlled crystal oscillator (OCXO). It provides high-quality signal tracking, ionospheric scintillation, and TEC measurements for all current and upcoming GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and Compass satellite signals.
Designed as a replacement to the GSV4004B GISTM receiver (no longer commercially available), the GPStation-6 provides backwards compatibility from both a hardware and software perspective, easing the transition effort of existing GSV4004B customers. Housed in NovAtel’s EuroPak enclosure, the receiver provides a communications interface and log outputs compatible with the GSV4004B.
“The research community has been using GSV4004B technology in their ground reference stations to help understand and monitor activity in the Ionosphere,” said Pat Fenton, NovAtel’s vice president of technology and chief technology officer. “NovAtel has acquired and enhanced this important technology so that it will continue to be available for the research community and for the range of industries that are impacted by the degradation of precision GNSS during ionospheric activity.”
NovAtel is accepting GPStation-6 orders with product shipments planned for the fourth quarter of 2011.
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