The Instituto Geográfico Militar of Chile acts as a SIRGAS Experimental Processing Centre since GPS week 1670 (January 8, 2012). The main characteristics of this new Experimental Centre are:

Name: Instituto Geográfico Militar de Chile
Abbreviation: CHL
Processed stations: ALUM, ANTC, AREQ, AUTF, AZUL, BOGT, BRAZ, BRFT, CALL, CATA, CHPI, CONZ, COPO, COYQ, CSLO, ESQU, GLPS, IQQE, ISPA, KOUR, LHCL, LPGS, MA01, MECO, MZAC, MZAE, OHI2, PALM, PARC, POAL, POVE, PPTE, RECF, RIO2, RIOP, RWSN, SALU, SANT, SAVO, SCRZ,SRLP, SVIC, TUCU, UCOR, UFPR, UNRO, UNSA, UNSJ, URUS, UYSO, VALP, VBCA, YCBA.
Software: Bernese 5.0 , Windows
Team: Héctor Parra, Cristian Mardones, Álvaro De Faria

The following stations are added in January 2011 to the SIRGAS-CON network:

Ecuador: LREC (Lorocachi), MTEC (Montalvo), STEC (Santiago)
Honduras: TEG2 (Tegucigalpa), it replaces station TEG1.

In the frame of the SIRGAS2011 meeting, a General Assembly of the SIRGAS Directing Council was carried out. This is the main body of SIRGAS and defines the official policies and recommendations of SIRGAS. It is composed by one representative of each member country, one of IAG and one of PAIGH. According to the bylaws, it meets every four years to elect the SIRGAS authorities, which correspond to the SIRGAS President and Vice-president. In this opportunity, Claudio Brunini (Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina) and Laura Sánchez (Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut, Germany) were re-elected for a second term, from 2011 to 2015. The corresponding details are summarized in the SIRGAS Newsletter No. 16.

The SIRGAS2011 General Meeting was held in Heredia, Costa Rica, between August 8 and 10, 2011. In the week before, from August 3 to 5, the Third IAG-PAIGH-SIRGAS School on Reference Systems took place. The SIRGAS meeting and the School were hosted by the Escuela de Topografía, Catastro y Geodesia of the Universidad Nacional (ETCG-UNA). Both events were supported by the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) and the Pan-American Institute for Geography and History (PAIG). The thematic of the meeting, its conclusions, resolutions, and recommendations are summarized in the SIRGAS Newsletter No. 16. [more...]