Location

The antenna is mounted on a concrete pillar at  Faa'a airport, Tahiti . The antenna bottom plate is about 1.67m above the concrete platform where the concrete monument is built (see pic below) . There is a black round concrete platform of about 5 meter diameter which serves as a base for two white concrete GNSS antenna monuments. The concrete platform is 30 cm high, above the natural ground covered in grass, so from the bottom plate of the GNSS antenna of station FAA100PYF to the natural ground it is 1.97 meters.

The equipment is hosted by Meteo France, following a convention established between ESA and Meteo France in 2005.

FAA1 was the first EGON station to be installed in the Pacific, and remains one of the most critical (i.e. isolated) stations in terms of supporting global coverage

History and evolution

The receiver is located in the Main Equipment Room of the station. A computer provides for the operation and remote control of the system.

The station has pressure, temperature and humidity data hourly available.

The communications are carried out using an ADSL connection.

The Ashtech micro Z receiver was tested and installed at the station in February 2005, plus an Ashtech Chokering antenna.

In October 2006 a Javad Legacy receiver was installed.

State of the art equipment

In December 2012 a Septentrio PolaRx4 receiver was installed and a Leica AR25.R4 antenna,  providing multi-GNSS tracking from this location: GPS, Glonass, Galileo, Beidou and QZSS.

In October 2019 the receiver was upgraded to a Septentrio PolarRx5. 

Photos

from 2012

FAA1 GNSS antenna