HAARP 2011 Summer Student Research Campaign

Abstract

The 2011 Summer Student Research Campaign (SSRC) was conducted at the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) Research Station in Gakona, Alaska during the period 18 27 July 2011. The SSRC included 26 students and mentors representing 11 universities and federal research laboratories. The program included daily meetings to provide a forum for reporting results and discussion of individual experiments and included a daily scientific presentation or tutorial. Scientific topics addressed experimentally included studies of Stimulated Electromagnetic Emission, F-region Artificial Field-Aligned Irregularities, effects of scintillation on GPS signals, studies of the Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) generation region and of methods for improving conversion efficiency, and the incorporation of sophisticated modulation techniques to improve the quality of ionospherically generated ELF communication signals using QPSK and error correction.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 16, 2012
Accession Number
ADA578332

Entities

People

  • A. L. Snyder
  • Edward J. Kennedy
  • J. A. Secan

Organizations

  • Northwest Research Associates

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Climate Change
  • Emission
  • Extremely Low Frequency
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Allocation
  • Frequency Bands
  • Global Navigation Satellite Systems
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Military Research
  • Modulation
  • Navigation
  • Navigation Satellites
  • Radio Frequency
  • Space Weather
  • Students

Readers

  • STEM Education
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Space