Research support
If you utilized any of our services in conducting your research, please acknowledge us and our sponsors. This enables us to show the value and impact of the facility.
Work supported by the NSF National Geophysical Facility should acknowledge NSF award 2435260. The NSF SAGE and GAGE facilities became the NSF NGF on October 1, 2025, but even if your work occurred prior to this date, please acknowledge the NSF NGF in new publications rather than referring to previous facilities.
Example language: Data were accessed from the NSF NGF data archive operated by EarthScope Consortium (NSF award 2435260).
Use of data
Realtime GNSS Data
Realtime multi-GNSS products are available via NTRIP under commercial and non-commercial licenses.
Geodetic Data DOIs
The NSF NGF archives datasets and derived data products that have been collected by many community investigators funded by a variety of sources. The data user is responsible for recognizing the role of the data provider through co-authorship, citation, sponsor acknowledgment, and/or other attribution, consistent with professional standards and sponsor requirements.
To facilitate data citation, we provide Digital Object Identifier (DOI) assignments for all suitably-archived, publishable datasets (including GPS/GNSS, TLS, and SAR data and products). A citation using a dataset’s DOI in a publication’s reference list provides appropriate attribution. We believe that the ability to cite datasets using DOIs will encourage ethical use of free and open data. In addition to fostering data citation, DOIs are useful for accessing specific datasets or versions of datasets, and for tracking provenance. If you are using a particular dataset that does not yet have a DOI, please contact us to see if DOI minting can be expedited. If needed, multiple DOIs can be aggregated into a single (new) DOI for ease of citation when many datasets are being referenced; contact help@earthscope.org to arrange aggregate DOIs.
You can search GPS/GNSS dataset DOIs here.
Seismic Data DOIs
It’s important that networks like the Global Seismographic Network are cited correctly so that publication metrics accurately represent its scientific value. To this end, the International Federation of Digital Seismic Networks (FDSN) has recommended that all seismic networks with a FDSN network code have a DOI. To cite data from a network with a DOI, refer to the data as you would to a normal scientific manuscript in the main body of the manuscript, or in the Acknowledgements. Then include the reference in the standard list of references or, if the list is long, in a special section for data sources.
A tool for discovering the FDSN network references is provided here.
Use of images and other media
Unless otherwise stated, media on our website are licensed CC BY 4.0. Please credit EarthScope Consortium and the creator/photographer (where applicable).
Logos
You may use our logos for attribution purposes. Please use the color logos on white backgrounds only. For a color background, use the white logos, instead. The logo pack includes PNG and SVG files — if you have any other needs, contact communications@earthscope.org.