First Ingv Cnt GPS Permanent Stations for Monitoring Crustal Deformation in Italy

The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in 1999 started to set up a first set of new continuosly operating GPS stations. The aims are to detect the geodinamic pattern at regional scale in the mediterranean area and densify the existing CGPS network belonging to ASI and to support the not permanent networks. Six stations (MAOO INGP RSTO INGR VVLO MTTM) are located in central appennine belt and one (GIBI) in northern Sicily. Geodetic pillars are located in the outcropping geological units and across tha main seismogenic sources of historical and recent eathquakes. Different monuments was planned, depending on local lithology, with 3D self centering system for precise antenna set up designed at INGV Daily 24 hours DAT and RINEX data at 30 sec sampling rate are locally collected by Trimble Reference Station (www.trimble.com) and transferred by telephone line to a server located at INGV. Data are stored in specific directory and compressed by Hatanaka procedures. Data transfer, storage and compression are controlled by automated tasks implemented on Windows operative system. Data are daily quality checked by TEQC software (UNAVCO) and processed with Bernese 4.0 software, producing daily and weekly coordinate solution in sinex format and velocity and strain field solution in sinex format.