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Atlanta, Georgia GPS Base Station
US Forest Service – Regional Office

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STATION INFORMATION

• Latitude: 33° 48' 03.780" North
• Longitude: 84° 23' 37.379" West
• Horizontal Datum: NAD83
• Elevation: 281.21 meters above ellipsoid
• Receiver: 12 Channel TRIMBLE Everest chip receiver
• Tracking epoch (sec.): Position at 5 seconds; SYNC measure at 5 seconds

CONTACT INFORMATION

• Contact Person: Dick Heins or Eric Schmeckpeper
• Address: US Forest Service, 1720 Peachtree Rd, Atlanta, GA 30309
• Telephone: 404-347-3988 or 404-347-2592 Fax: 404-347-2399
• E-Mail: rheins@fs.fed.us or eschmeckpeper@fs.fed.us

DATA ACCESS INFORMATION

• Data is available in receiver dependent Trimble .SSF format. RINEX is currently not supported.
• Data can be downloaded via this website (http://www.fs.fed.us/database/gps/atlanta.htm).
• File name: Ryyyymmddhh.EXE where R=Regional Office; yyyy=year; mm=month; dd=day; hh=hour in GPS time. The .EXE files are compressed and self-extracting ZIP files. File length is one hour.
• Data is kept for 90 days on the website. Older files available on request.
• Additional comments: Operation is 24 hours per day; 7 days per week. Files are usually available 5 minutes after the hour.

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