Matera GeoDAF Data Center

GeoDAF (Geodetical Data Archive Facility) is located at the Italian Space Agency Centro di Geodesia Spaziale (CGS) near Matera, a small town in the South of Italy. At the same location a SLR system (SAO-1), a VLBI Station and a GPS receiver are operated. CGS also controls and manages the Italian GPS Network. In order to archive and distribute these RINEX GPS data and the analysis solutions performed by CGS Analysis Group, the GeoDAF facility was set up in 1985. It was designed to manage SLR and VLBI data too, even if these features were never fully exploited. All these activities are managed on behalf of ASI, by Telespazio S.p.A.