Inventory of Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) in the northern Gulf of Mexico (2016)

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This dataset contains information about continuously operating reference stations (CORS) and the networks that they belong to throughout the Gulf of Mexico region, compiled from responses by network operators. Station information includes the 4-character site ID, location, type of equipment, specifics on communication, and redundancy on power and communication of the station. Network information includes ownership and maintenance of the stations, if any stations are geodetically tied or co-located with a water level observing station, where the data is stored, future expansion or reduction plans, and what the current needs and gaps an operator faces with the network. Stations are continuously being installed, updated and un-installed so this dataset is only a completed snapshot of stations in 2016. This dataset should not be used as a status map of stations in a local area, if status is needed on a specific location, sensor map URLs for each of the networks can be found in the general question answers.

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Author Renee Collini
Maintainer data@disl.org
Last Updated July 22, 2022, 22:52 (UTC)
Created July 22, 2022, 22:52 (UTC)
Content Create Date 2016-11-14
ISO.author Kidwell, D., K. Laursen, M. Hanisko, L. Rounds, M. Woodrey, W. Gray, R. Collini, and J. Harper.
ISO.custodian Northern Gulf of Mexico Sentinel Site Cooperative
ISO.pointOfContact DISL Data Management
ISO.principalInvestigator Renee Collini <rcollini@disl.org>
ISO.publisher NOAA National Ocean Service (NOS) National Geodetic Survey (NGS)
ISO.publisher.1 Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium
Place Keywords Northern Gulf of Mexico Sentinel Site Cooperative, NGOM SSC, Gulf of Mexico, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, DISL, northern Gulf of Mexico, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas
Temporal Begin 2016-06-01
Temporal End 2016-11-14
Theme Keywords Continuously Operating Reference Stations, CORS, Continuous GPS, Geospatial Coverage, Sea-level Rise, SLR, Subsidence, Vertical Control Network, GPS Real-time Network, Real-time Kinematic, RTK, Surveying and Mapping, Geodetic Survey
Use Constraints Acknowledgment of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Sentinel Site Cooperative (NGOM SSC), NOAA Gulf Regional Collaboration Team (GRCT), Northern Gulf Institute (NGI), and Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) is required in products developed from these data, and such acknowledgment as is standard for citation and legal practices for data source is expected by users of these data. Users should be aware that comparison with other data sets for the same area from other time periods may be inaccurate due to inconsistencies resulting from changes in mapping conventions, data collection, and computer processes over time. The distributor shall not be liable for improper or incorrect use of these data, based on the description of appropriate/inappropriate uses described in the metadata document. These data are not legal documents and are not to be used as such.
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