86 The FDSN and IRIS data management system: Providing easy access to terabytes of information

International Geophysics

Volumn 81, Issue PART B, 2003, Pages 1645-1655

  Ahern, Timothy K ^a  

^a IRIS Data Management Center   (United States)

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EID: 77957047608     PISSN: 00746142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-6142(03)80298-X     Document Type: Chapter

References (3)

1. Current institutional members are Australian Geological Survey/AGSO (Australia), Geological Survey of Canada/GSC (Canada), University of Chile (Chile), Institute of Earth Sciences/IES (Taiwan China), China Seismological Bureau/CSB (China), Geophysical Institute, Institute of Physics of the Earth/IPE (Czech Republic), Project Geoscope (France), GEOFON/GFZ (Germany), Seismologisches Zentralobservatory, Graefenberg (Germany), Geological Survey of Israel (Israel), MEDNET/Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica (Italy), Earthquake Research Institute/ERI University of Tokyo (Japan), Science and Technology Agency/STA-NIED (Japan), UNAM (Mexico), ORFEUS (The Netherlands), Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geophysics (Poland), Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (Switzerland), Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology/IRIS (United States), United States Geological Survey/USGS (United States).
2. Other countries that have been involved in the FDSN, but are not presently active, include Russia, Brazil, South Africa, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and India. Certainly, other countries have also attended meetings but on an irregular basis.
3. A significant amount of the capitalization costs for the IRIS GSN, PASSCAL, and Data Management System have also been contributed by the US Department of Defense and the US Department of Energy. Smaller amounts of support have been received from various foundations and private corporations.