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

这个小型仪器分布式阵列(DASI)项目将支持个人空间气象站网络的发展。PSWS是一种地面、模块化、多仪器系统，能够对地球空间系统进行遥感。这个项目是开发一个集成PSWSS的原型，它最初将由无线电接收器、地面磁强计和中央计算机组成。该系统的模块化性质将允许以后增加新的仪器。这一原型是多所大学和业余无线电社区通过HAM无线电科学公民调查(HAMSCI)集体和TAPR业余无线电工程组织合作开发的，这些组织最终将在其当地站点托管仪器。PSWS项目的一个主要目标是使个人负担得起。通过这种方式，PSWS的工具网络可以很容易地扩展，并可以通过吸引普通公众来有机地增长。同时，电视台还可以由专业机构选址和管理，确保所需的覆盖范围。PSWs的目标是收集关于各种现象的数据--移动电离层扰动和电离层吸收事件、地磁暴和亚暴、磁层超低频脉动和地磁感应电流。潮汐存在于如此大的空间尺度上，以至于目前不可能追踪它们从源到消散的过程。关于地磁风暴的局部影响的数据也非常缺乏。PSWS通过开发易于在国际上部署的工具来解决这一问题。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.