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Executive editors: Jean Dumoulin, Anette Eltner, Francesco Soldovieri & Håkan Svedhem
eISSN: GI 2193-0864, GID 2193-0872

Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems (GI) is a not-for-profit open-access interdisciplinary electronic journal for swift publication of original articles and short communications in the area of geoscientific instruments. It covers four main areas: (i) atmospheric and geospace sciences, (ii) Earth science, (iii) ocean science, and (iv) urban environmental monitoring. A unique feature of the journal is the emphasis on the synergy between science and technology that facilitates advances in GI.

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News

02 Jun 2025 GI executive editor Francesco Soldovieri received the 2025 Christiaan Huygens Medal

The GI editorial board would like to extend its warmest congratulations to Francesco Soldovieri (one of our executive editors and former GI division chair) on receiving the 2025 Christiaan Huygens Medal.

02 Jun 2025 GI executive editor Francesco Soldovieri received the 2025 Christiaan Huygens Medal

The GI editorial board would like to extend its warmest congratulations to Francesco Soldovieri (one of our executive editors and former GI division chair) on receiving the 2025 Christiaan Huygens Medal.

13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

10 Feb 2025 Thank you to all our referees in 2024!

A big thank you to all referees for their volunteer work in providing fair, thorough, and constructive peer-review reports! Through their invaluable contribution our interactive open-access journals maintain their high scientific standards and their ongoing success.

10 Feb 2025 Thank you to all our referees in 2024!

A big thank you to all referees for their volunteer work in providing fair, thorough, and constructive peer-review reports! Through their invaluable contribution our interactive open-access journals maintain their high scientific standards and their ongoing success.

Recent papers

01 Jul 2025
Characterizing anomalous geomagnetic induction from coastal effects with transfer functions and gradient measurements
András Attila Csontos
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2562,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2562, 2025
Preprint under review for GI (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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01 Jul 2025
First results from the equatorial geomagnetic station at Entoto Observatory and Research Center
Amoré Elsje Nel, Nigussie Giday, Marcos Vinicius da Silva, Daniel Chekole, Jürgen Matzka, Ziyaad Isaacs, Oliver Bronkala, and Lamessa Mogasa
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2565,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2565, 2025
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01 Jul 2025
Teoloyucan Geomagnetic Observatory operation over a Quality Management System ISO 9001:2015
Ana Caccavari-Garza, Gerardo Cifuentes-Nava, Armando Carillo-Vargas, Adriana Elizabeth Gonzalez-Cabrera, Charbeth López-Urías, and Juan Esteban Hernandez-Quintero
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2572,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2572, 2025
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30 Jun 2025
The multi scenarios applicability of GNSS differential positioning technology in the remeasurement of observatory azimuth angles
Yufei He, Xudong Zhao, Suqin Zhang, Qi Li, Fuxi Yang, Shaopeng He, and Pengkun Guo
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2557,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-2557, 2025
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27 Jun 2025
Improving co-registration of geoscientific imaging datasets with micro-sized marker structures on rock samples
Rosa A. de Boer, Daan H. Wielens, and Lennart V. de Groot
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1692,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1692, 2025
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Highlight articles

18 Aug 2023
New ring shear deformation apparatus for three-dimensional multiphase experiments: first results
Shae McLafferty, Haley Bix, Kyle Bogatz, and Jacqueline E. Reber
Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 12, 141–154, https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-12-141-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-12-141-2023, 2023
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14 Jul 2023
Design and performance of the Hotrod melt-tip ice-drilling system
William Colgan, Christopher Shields, Pavel Talalay, Xiaopeng Fan, Austin P. Lines, Joshua Elliott, Harihar Rajaram, Kenneth Mankoff, Morten Jensen, Mira Backes, Yunchen Liu, Xianzhe Wei, Nanna B. Karlsson, Henrik Spanggård, and Allan Ø. Pedersen
Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 12, 121–140, https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-12-121-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-12-121-2023, 2023
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02 Aug 2022
MOLISENS: MObile LIdar SENsor System to exploit the potential of small industrial lidar devices for geoscientific applications
Thomas Goelles, Tobias Hammer, Stefan Muckenhuber, Birgit Schlager, Jakob Abermann, Christian Bauer, Víctor J. Expósito Jiménez, Wolfgang Schöner, Markus Schratter, Benjamin Schrei, and Kim Senger
Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 11, 247–261, https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-11-247-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-11-247-2022, 2022
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Notice on the current situation in Ukraine

To show our support for Ukraine, all fees for papers from authors (first or corresponding authors) affiliated to Ukrainian institutions are automatically waived, regardless if these papers are co-authored by scientists affiliated to Russian and/or Belarusian institutions. The only exception will be if the corresponding author or first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) are from a Russian and/or Belarusian institution, in that case the APCs are not waived.

In accordance with current European restrictions, Copernicus Publications does not step into business relations with and issue APC-invoices (articles processing charges) to Russian and Belarusian institutions. The peer-review process and scientific exchange of our journals including preprint posting is not affected. However, these restrictions require that the first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) has an affiliation and invoice address outside Russia or Belarus.