La Rete Integrata Nazionale GPS (RING) dell' INGV: una infrastruttura aperta per la ricerca scientifica

INGV

Since 2004, the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) is investing important
energies for the creation of a continuous GPS network dislocated all over the Italian territory. Data
transmission will occur in real time, integrating the experiences already existing in the different
INGV institutes and developing a 3-yrs strategy for the new installations. The main targets of the network are represented by active tectonics studies, including also the seismological part as strain
accumulation on faults. Within a 3-yrs funding project, it is expected, to realize for the scientific
community an infrastructure which is comparable to those existing in countries where advanced
crustal deformation studies are carried out. Thus, INGV have co-located the classical seismological
instrumentation (broad band seismometers and accelerometers) with GPS receivers to observe and
quantify the whole seismic cycle. In this short paper, we describe the CGPS network, the
technological choices for the monumentation and the data transmission, the data and metadata
management and, finally, the data policy and the deliverables.