Collaborative Research: DASI Track 1--Personal Space Weather Station

合作研究：DASI Track 1——个人空间气象站

• 批准号: 1932972
• 负责人: Travis Atkison
• 金额: $ 40.28万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1932972&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; DASI; Track; Personal

This Distributed Arrays of Small Instruments (DASI) project will support the development of a network of Personal Space Weather Stations (PSWS). The PSWS is a ground-based, modular, multi-instrument system capable of remote sensing the geospace system. This project is to develop a protoype of an integrated PSWSS which will initially consist of a radio receiver instrument, a ground magnetometer, and a central computer. The modular nature of the system will allow for the later addition of new instruments. This prototype is being developed in collaboration between multiple universities and the ham radio community through the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) collective and the TAPR amateur radio engineering organization, who would eventually host instruments at their local sites. A primary goal of the PSWS project is to make it affordable to individuals. In this way, the PSWS network of instruments is easily expandable and can grow organically by engaging the general public. At the same time, stations can also be sited and managed by professional institutions, guaranteeing required coverage. The goal of the PSWS is to collect data on variety of phenomena - Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances and ionospheric absorption events, geomagnetic storms and substorms, magnetospheric ultra low frequency (ULF) pulsations, and geomagnetically-induced currents (GICs). TIDs exist over such large spatial scales that it is currently impossible to track them from source to dissipation. There is a significant lack of data on local effects of geomagnetic storms as well. The PSWS addresses this through the development of instrumentation that can easily be deployed internationally.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个分布式的小型乐器（DASI）项目将支持开发个人太空气象站（PSW）网络。 PSWS是一个基于地面的，模块化的多功能系统，能够遥感地理空系统。该项目是为了开发一个集成的PSWSS的原型，该PSWSS最初由无线电接收器仪器，接地磁力计和中央计算机组成。系统的模块化性质将允许以后添加新仪器。该原型是通过HAM无线电科学公民调查（HAMSCI）集体和TAPR业余无线电工程组织在多个大学与HAM无线电社区之间合作开发的，他们最终将在其当地站点托管乐器。 PSWS项目的主要目标是使个人负担得起。这样，PSWS的工具网络很容易扩展，可以通过吸引公众来有机地增长。同时，车站也可以由专业机构进行位置和管理，保证所需的承保范围。 PSW的目的是收集有关各种现象的数据 - 旅行电离层障碍和电离层吸收事件，地磁风暴​​和化型，磁层超低频（ULF）搏动以及地磁诱发的电流（GICS）。 TID在如此大的空间尺度上存在，以至于目前无法跟踪它们从源到耗散。关于地磁风暴的局部影响，存在大量数据。 PSW通过开发可以在国际上轻松部署的仪器来解决这一问题。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准通过评估来支持的。

项目成果

High‐Frequency Communications Response to Solar Activity in September 2017 as Observed by Amateur Radio Networks

业余无线电网络观测到的 2017 年 9 月太阳活动高频通信响应

• DOI: 10.1029/2018sw002008
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Space Weather
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Frissell, Nathaniel A.;Vega, Joshua S.;Markowitz, Evan;Gerrard, Andrew J.;Engelke, William D.;Erickson, Philip J.;Miller, Ethan S.;Luetzelschwab, R. Carl;Bortnik, Jacob
• 通讯作者: Bortnik, Jacob