Real-Time Specifications of the Geospace Environment

Abstract

We report the recent progress in our joint program of real-time mapping of ionospheric electric fields and currents and field-aligned currents through the Geospace Environment Data Analysis System (GEDAS) at the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory and similar computer systems in the world. Data from individual ground magnetometers as well as from the solar wind are collected by these systems and are used as input for the KRM and AMIE magnetogram-inversion algorithms, which calculate the twodimensional distribution of the ionospheric paranaeters. One of the goals of this program is to specify the solar-terrestrial environment in terms of ionospheric processes, providing the scientific community with more than what geomagnetic activity indices and statistical models provide.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA423773

Entities

People

  • A. J. Ridley
  • E. A. Kihn
  • Edward W. Cliver
  • Y. Kadowaki
  • Y. Kamide

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Computers
  • Electric Fields
  • Environment
  • High Latitudes
  • Magnetic Disturbances
  • Magnetometers
  • Measurement
  • Solar Wind
  • Space Sciences
  • Space Weather
  • Spacecraft
  • Specifications
  • Two Dimensional
  • Voltage

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.