NovAtel Inc. announced the GPStation-6 GNSS Ionospheric Scintillation and TEC Monitor (GISTM) receiver. This specialty GNSS receiver is integral to ionospheric monitoring and space weather applications. The announcement was made at ION 2011 in Portland, Oregon. The GPStation-6 receiver integrates NovAtel’s powerful OEM628 measurement engine with a high-quality low phase-noise oven-controlled crystal oscillator (OCXO). It provides high quality signal tracking, ionospheric scintillation, and TEC measurements for all current and upcoming GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and Compass satellite signals.

Designed as a replacement to the GSV4004B GISTM receiver (no longer commercially available), the GPStation-6 provides backwards compatibility from both a hardware and software perspective; easing the transition effort of existing GSV4004B customers. Housed in NovAtel’s familiar EuroPak™ enclosure, the receiver provides a communications interface and log outputs compatible with the GSV4004B.