HR: 0800h
AN: SM21A-0347    [Abstracts]
TI: Distributed Instrumentation Deployment During the IHY
AU: Davila, J M
EM: joseph.m.davila@nasa.gov
AF: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 612.1, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: * Thompson, B J
EM: barbara.j.thompson@nasa.gov
AF: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 612.1, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Gopalswamy, N
EM: n_gopalswamy@yahoo.com
AF: NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 612.1, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AB: A major thrust of the International Heliophysical Year (IHY) is to deploy arrays of small, inexpensive instruments such as magnetometers, radio antennas, GPS receivers, all-sky cameras, etc. around the world to provide global measurements of ionospheric and heliospheric phenomena. This program is a collaboration between the IHY and the United Nations Basic Space Science (UNBSS) program, which has been dedicated to the IHY through 2009. The small instrument program is envisioned as a partnership between instrument providers, and instrument host countries. The lead scientist will provide the instruments (or fabrication plans for instruments) in the array; the host country will provide manpower, facilities, and operational support to obtain data with the instrument typically at a local university. Instrument operational support for local scientists, facilities, data acquisition, etc will be provided by the host nation.
UR: http://ihy2007.org
DE: 0310 Airglow and aurora
DE: 1515 Geomagnetic induction
SC: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005