# obspy.core.inventory.station.Station.__init__

`Station.``__init__`(code, latitude, longitude, elevation, channels=None, site=None, vault=None, geology=None, equipments=None, operators=None, creation_date=None, termination_date=None, total_number_of_channels=None, selected_number_of_channels=None, description=None, comments=None, start_date=None, end_date=None, restricted_status=None, alternate_code=None, historical_code=None, data_availability=None)

  Parameters: | channels (list of `Channel`) All channels belonging to this station. site (`Site`) The lexical description of the site latitude (`Latitude`) The latitude of the station longitude (`Longitude`) The longitude of the station elevation The elevation of the station in meter. site These fields describe the location of the station using geopolitical entities (country, city, etc.). vault Type of vault, e.g. WWSSN, tunnel, transportable array, etc geology Type of rock and/or geologic formation. equipments Equipment used by all channels at a station. operator An operating agency and associated contact persons. If there multiple operators, each one should be encapsulated within an Operator tag. Since the Contact element is a generic type that represents any contact person, it also has its own optional Agency element. creation_date (`UTCDateTime`) Date and time (UTC) when the station was first installed termination_date (`UTCDateTime`, optional) Date and time (UTC) when the station was terminated or will be terminated. A blank value should be assumed to mean that the station is still active. total_number_of_channels (int) Total number of channels recorded at this station. selected_number_of_channels (int) Number of channels recorded at this station and selected by the query that produced this document. external_references (list of `ExternalReference`) URI of any type of external report, such as IRIS data reports or dataless SEED volumes. description (str) A description of the resource comments (list of `Comment`) An arbitrary number of comments to the resource start_date (`UTCDateTime`, optional) The start date of the resource end_date (`UTCDateTime`) The end date of the resource restricted_status (str) The restriction status alternate_code (str) A code used for display or association, alternate to the SEED-compliant code. historical_code (str) A previously used code if different from the current code. data_availability (`DataAvailability`) Information about time series availability for the station.

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#### Contributors

- Ackerley, Nick
- Allgeyer, Sebastien
- Ammon, Charles J.
- Antunes, Emanuel
- Arnarsson, Ólafur St.
- Bank, Markus
- Barsch, Robert
- Behr, Yannik
- Bernardi, Fabrizio
- Bernauer, Felix
- Bes de Berc, Maxime
- Beyreuther, Moritz
- Boltz, Shawn
- Bonaimé, Sébastien
- Carothers, Lloyd
- Chamberlain, Calum
- Chambers, Derrick
- Chen, Zhao
- Clark, Adam
- Danecek, Peter
- Egdorf, Sven
- Engels, Fabian
- Ermert, Laura
- Eulenfeld, Tom

- Fabbri, Tommaso
- Falco, Nicholas
- Fee, Jeremy
- Grellier, Clément
- Grunberg, Marc
- Hammer, Conny
- Heimann, Sebastian
- Heiniger, Lukas
- Hope, Gaute
- Igel, Heiner
- Inza, Adolfo
- Isken, Marius
- Ketchum, David
- Koymans, Mathijs
- Kremers, Simon
- Kress, Victor
- Krieger, Lars
- Krischer, Lion
- Kula, Damian
- Käufl, Paul
- Köhler, Andreas
- Lecocq, Thomas
- Leeman, John
- Legovini, Paride

- Lesage, Philippe
- Li, Yulin
- Lomax, Anthony
- Lopes, Rui L.
- MacCarthy, Jonathan
- Maggi, Alessia
- Martin, Henri
- Medlin, Andrew
- Megies, Tobias
- Meschede, Matthias
- Michelini, Alberto
- Miller, Nathaniel C.
- Morgenstern, Bernhard
- Nof, Ran Novitsky
- Panning, Mark P.
- Parker, Tom
- Pestourie, Romain
- Rapagnani, Giovanni
- Reyes, Celso
- Ringler, Adam
- Rothenhäusler, Nicolas
- Russo, Emiliano
- Sales de Andrade, Elliott

- Satriano, Claudio
- Saul, Joachim
- Scheingraber, Chris
- Schneider, Simon
- Sippl, Christian
- Snoke, Arthur
- Stange, Stefan
- Stähler, Simon C.
- Sullivan, Benjamin
- Tian, Dongdong
- Trabant, Chad
- Trani, Luca
- Uieda, Leonardo
- Walker, Andrew
- Walther, Marcus
- Wassermann, Joachim
- Williams, Mark C.
- Winkelman, Andrew
- Zaccarelli, Riccardo
- Zad, Seyed Kasra Hosseini
- Zhu, Lijun
- van Driel, Martin
- van Wijk, Kasper

#### Funds

ObsPy was partially funded by the

- German Science Foundation (DFG) via grant DFG IG 16/9-1
- German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), GEOTECHNOLOGIEN grant 03G0646H.
- NERA project (Network of European Research Infrastructures for Earthquake Risk Assessment and Mitigation) under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) grant agreement n° 262330
- Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG)
- VERCE EU-FP7 project (no. 283543)