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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

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.

05 Feb 2025 Copernicus Publications and all journals left Twitter

The Copernicus Twitter account as well as all Twitter accounts of journals published by us have been deactivated. There will be no automatic feeds of newly posted preprints or published journal articles anymore, we do not actively tweet, and the status informs that the accounts are no longer maintained. Twitter is no longer linked from the journal websites or in the share section of the preprint or journal article HTML pages.

05 Feb 2025 Copernicus Publications and all journals left Twitter

The Copernicus Twitter account as well as all Twitter accounts of journals published by us have been deactivated. There will be no automatic feeds of newly posted preprints or published journal articles anymore, we do not actively tweet, and the status informs that the accounts are no longer maintained. Twitter is no longer linked from the journal websites or in the share section of the preprint or journal article HTML pages.

Recent papers

08 May 2025
Electrical resistivity imaging data for hydrological and soil investigations of virgin Rospuda River peatland (north-eastern Poland)
Grzegorz Sinicyn, Łukasz Kaczmarek, Radosław Mieszkowski, Stanisław Mieszkowski, Bartosz Bednarz, Krzysztof Kochanek, Mateusz Grygoruk, and Maria Grodzka-Łukaszewska
Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 14, 103–112, https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-14-103-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-14-103-2025, 2025
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05 May 2025
A multiplexing system for quantifying oxygen fractionation factors in closed chambers
Clémence Paul, Clément Piel, Joana Sauze, Olivier Jossoud, Arnaud Dapoigny, Daniele Romanini, Frédéric Prié, Sébastien Devidal, Roxanne Jacob, Alexandru Milcu, and Amaëlle Landais
Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 14, 91–101, https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-14-91-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-14-91-2025, 2025
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30 Apr 2025
Review of methodological considerations and recommendations for mapping remote glaciers from aerial photography surveys in suboptimal conditions
Dorota Medrzycka, Luke Copland, Laura Thomson, William Kochtitzky, and Braden Smeda
Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 14, 69–90, https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-14-69-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-14-69-2025, 2025
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24 Apr 2025
Solar power systems for polar instrumentation: why night consumption matters
Michael R. Prior-Jones, Lisa Craw, Jonathan D. Hawkins, Elizabeth A. Bagshaw, Paul Carpenter, Thomas H. Nylen, and Joe Pettit
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1529,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1529, 2025
Preprint under review for GI (discussion: open, 1 comment)
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23 Apr 2025
Optimal site selection for Choutuppal geomagnetic observatory, based on geophysical evidences
Divyanshu Dwivedi, Sneh Yadav, Kusumita Arora, Rakesh Murteli, and Alok Taori
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1213,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1213, 2025
Preprint under review for GI (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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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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14 Jul 2022
Towards a self-sufficient mobile broadband seismological recording system for year-round operation in Antarctica
Alfons Eckstaller, Jölund Asseng, Erich Lippmann, and Steven Franke
Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 11, 235–245, https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-11-235-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-11-235-2022, 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.