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

这个分布式小型仪器阵列（DASI）项目将支持个人空间气象站（PSWS）网络的开发。 PSWS是一个地基、模块化、多仪器系统，能够遥感地球空间系统。该项目是开发一个综合PSWSS的原型，它最初将包括一个无线电接收器，一个地面磁力计，和一个中央计算机。该系统的模块化性质将允许以后增加新的仪器。这个原型是由多所大学和业余无线电社区通过业余无线电科学公民调查（HamSCI）集体和TAPR业余无线电工程组织合作开发的，他们最终将在当地的站点托管仪器。PSWS项目的主要目标是使个人负担得起。通过这种方式，PSWS的仪器网络很容易扩展，并可以通过吸引公众而有机地增长。同时，也可以由专业机构选址和管理，保证所需的覆盖范围。PSWS的目标是收集各种现象的数据-电离层移动扰动和电离层吸收事件、磁暴和亚磁暴、磁层超低频脉动和地磁感应电流。TID存在于如此大的空间尺度上，以至于目前不可能从源到耗散跟踪它们。关于地磁暴对当地影响的数据也严重缺乏。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

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.