MASPALOMAS – ESP2 station (Canary islands)
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Name : ESP2
Location : MASPALOMAS on the island of GRAN CANARIA
Latitude : 27.72
Longitude: -15.63
Hosting : INTA site (Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial)
Start-up : September, 25 2020
![Location of the Maspalomas station on Gran Canaria Island](http://www.svom.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Maspalomas1-562x600.jpg)
![Location of the Maspalomas station on Gran Canaria Island, close-up view](http://www.svom.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Maspalomas2-600x589.jpg)
This station was installed on the roof of a building on the INTA (Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial) site.
A concrete slab was placed on the roof to house the station.
![Installation of the SVOM antenna on the INTA site](http://www.svom.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Maspalomas4-400x600.jpg)
This station can be configured to receive data from the NOAA 18 and NOAA 19 weather satellites. The reconstructed images make it possible to check the quality of the site and to identify possible degradations on the reception of the signals.
![Image construted from the data sent by the NOAA18 satellite](http://www.svom.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Maspalomas5-381x600.jpg)