Components

Network Stations

Functions of Network Stations in the IVS Terms of Reference

Map of Network Stations

Country (location of station)	IVS Component Name (link to station web site)	IVS code (link to recent Annual Report)	8-letter name (link to configuration file)	On-site Technical Contact	Administrative Contact	Sponsoring Organization
Antarctica	ERS/VLBI Station O'Higgins	Oh	OHIGGINS	Walter Schwartz	Torben Schüler	Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG) , Germany
Antarctica	JARE Syowa Station	Sy	SYOWA	Yuichi Aoyama	Koichiro Doi	National Institute of Polar Research , Japan
Argentina	Observatorio Argentina-Alemán de Geodesia (AGGO)	Ag	AGGO	Hayo Hase	Claudio Brunini	Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) , Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG, Germany )
Australia	Hobart 12m, Mt. Pleasant Radio Observatory	Hb	HOBART12	Brett Reid	Jamie McCallum	University of Tasmania
Australia	Hobart 26m, Mt. Pleasant Radio Observatory	Ho	HOBART26	Brett Reid	Jamie McCallum	University of Tasmania
Australia	Katherine	Ke	KATH12M	Brett Reid	Jamie McCallum	University of Tasmania
Australia	Yarragadee	Yg	YARRA12M	Brett Reid	Jamie McCallum	University of Tasmania
Australia	Parkes Observatory	Pa	PARKES	John Reynolds	Tasso Tzioumis	CSIRO
Brazil	Fortaleza, Radio Observatorio Espacial do Nordes (ROEN)	Ft	FORTLEZA	Macilio Lucena	Jean-Pierre Raulin	Centro de Radio Astronomia e Aplicacoes Espaciais
China	Nanshan VLBI Station	Ur	URUMQI	Ali Yusup	Wang Na	Chinese Academy of Sciences
China	Seshan	Sh	SESHAN25	Liang Shiguang	Huang Xinyong	Joint Laboratory for Radio Astronomy (JLRA), CAS and Shanghai Observatory, CAS
Finland	Metsähovi Radio Observatory	Mh	METSAHOV	Nataliya Zubko	Markku Poutanen	Aalto University , Finnish Geodetic Institute
Germany	Effelsberg	Eb	EFLSBERG	Uwe Bach	Alexander Kraus	Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
Germany	Geodetic Observatory Wettzell	Wz	WETTZELL	Gerhard Kronschnabl	Torben Schüler	Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG) and Forschungseinrichtung Satellitengeodäsie der Technischen Universität München (FESG)
Italy	Medicina	Mc	MEDICINA	Giuseppe Maccaferri	Monia Negusini	Istituto di Radioastronomia
Italy	Noto (Sicily)	Nt	NOTO	Gino Tuccari	Monia Negusini	Istituto di Radioastronomia
Italy	Matera	Ma	MATERA	Giuseppe Colucci	Giuseppe Bianco	Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)
Japan	Kashima 34m	Kb	KASHIM34	Eiji Kawai	Mamoru Sekido	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Japan	Key Stone Project Kashima 11m	K1	KASHIM11	Eiji Kawai	Mamoru Sekido	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Japan	Key Stone Project Koganei	Kg	KOGANEI	Eiji Kawai	Mamoru Sekido	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Japan	Tsukuba VLBI Station	Ts	TSUKUB32	Ryoji Kawabata	Ryoji Kawabata	Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI)
Japan	Ishioka VLBI Station	Is	ISHIOKA	Saho Matsumoto	Yu Takagi	Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI)
Japan	Mizusawa 10m	Mn	MIZNAO10	Osamu Kameya	Takaaki Jike	National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)
New Zealand	Warkworth Observatory	Ww	WARK12M	Stuart Weston	Stuart Weston	Auckland University of Technology
Norway	Ny-Alesund Geodetic Observatory	Ny	NYALES20	Trond Sandmo	Piotr Kupiszewski	Norwegian Mapping Authority
Russia	Radioastronomical Observatory Badary	Bd	BADARY	Roman Sergeev	Sergey Smolentsev	Institute of Applied Astronomy RAS
Russia	Svetloe Radio Astronomy Observatory	Sv	SVETLOE	Ismail Rahimov	Sergey Smolentsev	Institute of Applied Astronomy RAS
Russia	Radioastronomical Observatory Zelenchukskaya	Zc	ZELENCHK	Andrey Dyakov	Sergey Smolentsev	Institute of Applied Astronomy RAS
Spain	IGN Yebes Observatory	Yb	YEBES	Javier Gonzalez	Pablo de Vicente	Instituto Geografico Nacional
South Africa	Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory	Hh	HARTRAO	Marisa Nickola	Jonathan Quick	National Research Foundation
South Korea	Sejong Station	Kv	SEJONG	Hongjong Oh	Chan-Yeol Park