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MESI Instrument Systems

Science requires a solid database and access to dedicated instruments, laboratories, and data products. GFZ’s Modular Earth Science Infrastructure (MESI) provides essential observations for geosciences. It is thus one backbone of research at GFZ and is also available to users from universities and research institutes. The MESI instrument systems comprise operational services and ground segments for satellite missions (especially GRACE-FO and Swarm), globally distributed station networks for seismology, geodesy (GNSS and gravity), and the magnetic field, state-of-the-art instrument pools for seismology, magnetotellurics, and GNSS as well as support services for ICDP projects including the realisation of borehole physical measurements and specialized analytical laboratories (Secondary ion mass spectrometry, Potsdam Imaging and Spectral Analysis Facilities).

Contact persons: Frederik Tilmann, Benjamin Männel, Sergiy Vorogushyn

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ESA Satellite Mission Swarm

Swarm, the fifth Earth Explorer mission approved in ESA's Living Planet Programme and launched on November 22, 2013, 1:02 pm (CET), consists of a constellation of three identical satellites in near-polar orbits between 400 and 550 km altitude.

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GE Seismic Network - GEOFON Global Seismic Network

In 2018 the GEOFON global seismic network consists of more than 80 active high quality stations with real-time acquisition. The network plays a leading role in global real-time seismology providing valuable data for almost all fundamental and applie…
GIPP - Geophysical Instrument Pool Potsdam

The "Geophysical Instrument Pool Potsdam (GIPP)" provides seismic, magnetotelluric and geodetic instruments and sensors for projects of GFZ groups, universities and other research facilities. It is hosted by Section 2.2 "Geophysical Imaging" and Se…
GIPP-MT - Magnetotelluric component of the "Geophysical Instrument Pool Potsdam"

The magnetotelluric instruments are part of the "Geophysical Instrument Pool Potsdam(GIPP)" which means that the instruments are generally available for academic use to all German Universities. The allocation of the instruments is decided by the GFZ…
GNSS Station Network

Since the early 1990s, the GFZ has operated a global GNSS station network with currently about 70 stations for precise satellite clock & orbit determination, realization of the terrestrial reference frame, radio occultation measurements or studies o…
GRACE-FO - Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment-Follow-On Mission

The primary objective of the GRACE-FO Mission is, as for GRACE, to obtain precise global and high-resolution models for both the static and the time variable components of the Earth's gravity field. As in the original GRACE mission, this goal is ach…
ICDP International Continental Scientific Drilling Programme

The International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) is a multinational program to further and fund geosciences in the field of Continental Scientific Drilling. Scientific drilling is a critical tool in understanding of Earth processes a…
OSG ICDP | Operational Support Group of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program

The Operational Support Group of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program, ICDP, situated at GFZ, provides downhole logging services and access to utilize the ICDP instrument pool for PIs of successful ICDP proposals. ICDP is a prop…
PISA – Potsdam Imaging and Spectral Analysis Facility

The PISA facility combines the state-of-the-art imaging and spectral technologies for all kinds of research applications. It consists of a range of electron microscopes with various detectors including EBSD and EDS, and optical microscopes.

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Permanent Magnetotelluric Reference Station in Wittstock, Germany

The sources for the [magnetotelluric (MT) method](https://www.gfz.de/en/section/geophysical-imaging/topics/methoden-em) are naturally occurring electromagnetic field variations. Electromagnetic currents are excited over a wide frequency range in the…
Satellite Laser Ranging Station Potsdam

The Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) Station of the GFZ Potsdam has been continuously operating within the framework of the International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS) since January 2003. The method of satellite laser ranging was established in 1964 and…
Satellite Receiving Station at Ny-Ålesund (Spitsbergen)

The GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences operates a satellite receiving station at Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen (78° 55´ North, 11° 56´ East) to receive data from research satellites in polar orbits. The station is located about 1 km outside the village,…
The Potsdam Ion Microprobe (SIMS) User Facility

The GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences operates a fully equipped, large geometry SIMS instrument, which is supported by a comprehensive spectrum of peripheral instrumentation. The SIMS laboratory is an open user facility intended to support the ne…