BGI is hosted in Toulouse, France at GET (Geoscience Environment Toulouse) / OMP (Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées) and operates with the support of French national agencies and research laboratories and other international collaborations.
Supporting French agencies and organizations
- Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM)
- Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)
- Institut National des Sciences de l’Univers (CNRS/INSU)
- Institut National de l’Information Géographique et Forestière (IGN)
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
- Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine (SHOM)
Contributing French research Laboratories and Universities
- Geosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET) – Toulouse
- Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP)
- Université Paul Sabatier (UPS) – Toulouse
- Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre (EOST) – Strasbourg
- Ecole Supérieure des Géomètres et Topographes (ESGT) – Le Mans
- Géosciences Montpellier (GM) – Montpellier
- Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) – Paris
- Laboratoire National d’Essais (LNE) – Paris / Trappes
Main international collaborations
- Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG) – Germany
- Politecnico Milano (POLIMI) – Italy
- Research Institute of Geodesy, Topography and Cartography (VUGTK) – Czech Republic
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) – Greece
- National Geospatial and Imaging Agency (NGA) – USA
- Denmark Technical University (DTU) – Denmark
Reference database
BGI is the official service and datacenter for relative and absolute terrestrial gravity data & products for the following entities and networks (list to be complemented)
- International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)
- International Association of Geodesy (IAG)
- International Gravity Field Service (IGFS)
- DataTerra (Integrated Earth System Observation)
- Data and Services for the Solid Earth (Form@Ter)
- French seismologic and geodetic network (RESIF) / EPOS