GFZ Research Infrastructures
The research infrastructure at GFZ comprises satellite systems, global station networks, and regional observatories, as well as instrument networks, laboratories, instrument pools and data systems. As a Helmholtz centre, GFZ fulfils an important role in providing infrastructure, data, information, instrument systems and networks. We classify the instruments and services of our research infrastructure that are available to the entire international scientific community and which are subject to special terms of use as Modular Earth Science Infrastructure (MESI).
ResearchInfrastructure@GFZ is the central discovery portal for research infrastructures and data at GFZ. It enables structured searches across disciplines, product categories (data, services and software), persons and GFZ sections, and provides basic information with links to further information on the GFZ websites and data access.
Instruments
MESI Modular Earth System Infrastructure
Data, Services, Software
Access to GFZ research infrastructures
For our Modular Earth Science Infrastructure (MESI), at least 50 percent of the infrastructure is available for free academic use by external scientists. An external steering committee supervises these infrastructures which include satellite systems, the secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) laboratory and the Potsdam Imaging and Spectral Analysis Facility (PISA), the global station networks, and mobile devices.
We also operate research infrastructures that we use primarily for science at GFZ and that are managed by internal steering committees. These infrastructures can also be made available to external users.