RTS Contributors + Providers
The RTS is overseen by the IGS Real-Time Working Group. The Real-Time Analysis Center Coordinator (RTACC), currently the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG), has operational responsibility for the generation of the official combination products. These are generated at two combination servers and combine products from several Real-Time Analysis Centers. RTS is distributed through two primary Product Distribution Centers and a number of secondary centers that provide a highly available service.
Analysis Centers
The IGS combination products can only exist because of the contributions of the individual solution streams from the participating Analysis Centers. Below is a short description of the contributing solutions from the participating ACs. All AC orbit and clock product streams are transmitted with an update interval of 5 seconds. Ionospheric products have a temporal resolution of up to a minute (for more information and details on the ionospheric products please see http://chapman.upc.es/irtg/IGS_mount_points.doc).
| APM | Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences China |
| BKG | Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy Frankfurt am Main Germany |
| CAS | Chinese Academy of Sciences China |
| CHC | CHC Navigation China |
| CNES | Centre National d´Etudes Spatiales Toulouse France |
| GFZ | GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences Potsdam Germany |
| GMV | gmv Innovating Solutions S.L. Spain |
| JPL | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena USA |
| NRCan | Natural Resouces Canada Ottawa Canada |
| SHAO | Shanghai Astronomical Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai China |
| UPC | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Barcelona Spain |
| WHU | Wuhan University of Technology Wuhan China |
* The mountpoints prefix SSRC and SSRA indicate CoM and APC orbits, respectively.
# The last digit describes the SSR format: 1: IGS-SSR, 0: RTCM-SSR .
RTS Contributors
RT COMMITTEE
At present, the IGS RT Committee has about 50 members from about 25 international institutions and companies. The Committee organizes two to three online meetings each year and meets in person at the IGS Workhops. The meetings are announced through the IGS RTWG Mailing List.
- Axel Rülke, German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (RTC Chair)
- Ningbo Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences (RTC Vice Chair)
Combination Center
- German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG)
Product Distribution Centers
There are two primary Product Distribution Centers:
- IGS Central Bureau (IGSCB)
- German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG)
Users may be also referred to an alternate product distribution centers upon confirmation of registration.
- Peter Neumaier, German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG)
RT Analysis Center Coordinator (RTACC)
- Andrea Stürze, German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG)
RTS Station Data Providers
- Addis Ababa University – Ethiopia
- Agenzia Spaziale Italiana – Italy
- Agricultural University of Wroclaw – Poland
- Alfred Wegener Institut – Germany
- Astrogeodynamical Observatory – Poland
- Astronomy and Space Science Institute – Korea
- Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics – Brazil
- Bucharest Technical University of Civil Engineering – Romania
- Bundesamt fuer Eich- und Vermessungswesen – Austria
- Centre National d´Etudes Spatiales – France
- Chulalongkorn University – Thailand
- Clark Fortune McDonald & Associates – New Zealand
- Croatian Geodetic Institute – Croatia
- Curtin University – Australia
- DIST Universita di Cagliari – Italy
- ESA/ESOC – Germany
- FOMI Satellite Geodetic Observatory – Hungary
- Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy – Germany
- Finnish Geodetic Institute – Finland
- Fugro – Norway
- GOP Research Institute of Geodesy Topography and Cartographie – Czech Republic
- GPS Solutions Inc. – U.S.A.
- GSOC/DLR German Space Operations Center – Germany
- GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam – Germany
- GeoNet – New Zealand
- Geodetic Institute University Warszawa – Poland
- Geodetic and Cartographic Institute Bratislava – Slovakia
- Geoscience Australia – Australia
- Geospatial Information Authority of Japan – Japan
- Imperial College London – UK
- Institut Geographique National – France
- Instituto Cartografico de Catalunya – Spain
- Instituto Geografico Nacional – Spain
- Instituto Geografico Portugues – Portugal
- Instytut Geodezji i Kartografii Warszawie – Poland
- Istanbul Technical University – Turkey
- Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica I.N.RI.M – Italy
- Kazan Federal University – Russian Federation
- L’equipe du reseau Banian – New Caledonia
- NASA Stennis Space Center – U.S.A.
- National Geographic Information Institute – Korea
- National Land Survey – Sweden
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – National Geodetic Survey – U.S.A.
- National University Lviv – Ukraine
- Natural Resources – Canada
- Naval Observatory – U.S.A.
- NERC Space Geodesy Facility – United Kingdom
- Point Inc. – Canada
- Puerto Rico Seismic Network – Puerto Rico
- Puget Sound Reference Network – U.S.A.
- Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development – Kenya
- Regional Centre for Training in Aerospace Surveys – Nigeria
- Rocco V. D’Andrea Inc. – U.S.A.
- Royal Observatory – Belgium
- Singapore Land Authority – Singapore
- Solucoes em Posicionamento Global SPG – Brazil
- Surveys and Mapping – South Africa
- SwissTopo – Switzerland
- Technical University Delft -The Netherlands
- Teodonivel – Brazil
- Trimbase Ltda – Brazil
- UNAVCO – U.S.A
- Universidad de Cordoba – Argentina
- Universidad de Rosario – Argentina
- Universidad del Zulia – Venezuela
- Universidade Estadual Paulista UNESP/FCT – Brazil
- Universidade da Baira Interior UBI/CGUL/IDL – Portugal
- University New South Wales – Australia
- University of Latvia – Latvia
- University of the South Pacific – Fiji
- University of Warmia and Mazury Olsztyn, Space Radio – Diagnostics Research Centre – Poland
- University Padova – Italy
Last Updated on 2 Dec 2025 14:45 UTC