Development of the First Distributed Observatory Dedicated to Studies of the Low Latitude Ionosphere and Atmosphere

49个新的全球定位系统接收器、5个高级（包括低频）电离层探测仪和5个磁通门磁力计分布在南美洲各地，以满足社区了解低纬度和南部磁纬度电离层日常变化的显著需要。数据流产生了一个真实的“即时预报”和被称为赤道扩展F的电离层不规则性的预测能力。主要的研究目标是预测由这些电离层不规则性引起的无线电频率通信和导航的不稳定性。电离层探空仪链和磁力计沿着西经70度（西经70度）附近的一条链分布，从南纬32度（南纬32度）到北纬8度（北纬8度），除了提供关于总电子含量的全球定位系统信息外，还提供关于电离层扰动和重力波形态的前所未有的信息。

49 new Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers, 5 advanced (including low frequency) ionosondes, and five fluxgate magnetometers are distributed throughout South America in response to a conspicuous community need to understand the day-to-day variability of the low latitude and southern magnetic latitude ionosphere. The data stream produces a real "now-casting" and forecasting capability of ionospheric irregularities known as equatorial spread-F. The primary research target is prediction of radio frequency communication and navigation scintillations that are caused by these ionospheric irregularities. Distributed along a chain near 70 degrees west (70o W) longitude, from 32 degrees south (32o S) to 8 degrees north (8o N) latitude, the ionosonde chain and magnetometers provide unprecedented information concerning traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs), and gravity wave morphology, in addition to the GPS information on total electron content (TEC).