Measurement technology
The Chair of Mathematical and Physical Geodesy owns a wide variety of high-end instruments and equipment. This diversity of available hardware enables the group to conduct even the most challanging experiments. The in-house electronics and microcontroller laboratory and the engineering workshop give us the possibility to plan, develop and realize high-precision instruments taylored to our specific needs.
Project list:
Development and testing of a new application board for GNSS field campaigns on the basis of the u-blox ZED-F9P GNSS module
Recently, the consumer-grade dual-frequency GNSS chip u-blox F9P became available on the mass market. Compared to geodetic-grade GNSS receivers, this technology may have less advanced signal processing techniques (e.g., for mitigating noise effects), but is highly cost-effective, since these low-cost chip come at the costs of a fraction of high-grade equipment. Based on this new technology, we are developing and testing a GNSS application board and a data logger for geomonitoring projects, in proof-of-concept studies. We test these instruments for medium- and long-term measurements of ground movements and the monitoring of the tropospheric state, as well as for high-rate applications in seismology or structural health monitoring.
Start date:
01.06.2020
Contacts at MPG:
Roland Hohensinn ()
Gregor Möller ()
Alexander Wolf ()
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Development of the next generation of GNSS sensor stations for the monitoring of atmospheric water vapor and detection of ground motions
MPG operates a series of mobile GNSS sensor stations for the monitoring of permafrost/rock glacier movements and landslides. For the use as climatological stations, the individual components are now upgraded to state-of-the-art dual-frequency receivers and antennas, including new 4G modems for the data transfer and cutting-edge communication solutions by Astrocast for remote control via satellite.
Start date:
01.03.2021
Contacts at MPG:
Matthias Aichinger-Rosenberger ()
Gregor Möller ()
Alexander Wolf ()
Philippe Limpach ()
Markus Rothacher ()
Financiers (external):
Federal Office for the Environment, Switzerland
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