Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Single Built Works (hierarchy name)
5. single built works (built environment)
6. [single built works by specific type]
7. [single built works by function]
8. research structures
9. research buildings

Narrower term/s

• research stations[+]
  • meteorological stations
  • seismological stations
  • ice stations
• astronomical observatories

Anotations

Scope note:

Buildings or parts of buildings set apart for, and equipped with instruments for making, observations of natural phenomena, typically astronomical, meteorological, or geophysical phenomena.