Useful Links

Here I provide a list of links to web pages and programs that I use on a regular basis, or occasionally just for something a little different...

GPS

• Scripps Orbital and Permanent Array Center ("SOPAC") is useful for many things GPS but below are some utilities I find particularly useful:
• Date converter between calendar date (e.g. YYYY MM DD), ordinal date (YYYY DoY), decimal year (YYYY.0), GPS week (WWWW D) and modified Julian date (MMMMM)
• Site ID checker (against SOPAC's database, so not perfect) for when you're installing and naming new sites


• Antenna calibration from the National Geodetic Survey (most useful for their collection of antenna specification diagrams, I find)


• UNAVCO Data Archive Interface (for searching the UNAVCO archives and generally a good place to gather information on publicly available sites in any given area)


• Raw and RINEX conversion utilities:
• Trimble's runpkr00 raw conversion utility (now maintained by UNAVCO)
• teqc
• Ashtech RINEX Converter (Windows executable)
• Trimble ConvertToRINEX (Windows self-extracting installer)

InSAR

• Matt Pritchard's (Cornell University) ROI_PAC web page has many hints and further links on the ROI_PAC software.
• Rob Mellors' (now at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) provides information and programs on pre-processing of ALOS data.

Geology

• The International Commission on Stratigraphy's International Stratigraphic Chart
• The Geological Society of America Geologic Time Scale (Walker, J.D., and Geissman, J.W., compilers, 2009, Geologic Time Scale: Geological Society of America, doi:10.1130/2009.CTS004R2C)

Weather

• From the UK Met Office:
  • Current UK weather
  • Current UK rainfall radar


• From the US National Weather Service:
  • Current Boston area rainfall radar (loop)