Italian Antarctic Data Center
Permanent ionospheric observatory at Concordia Station (Dome C)
Monitoring the ionosphere is an essential part of the “Space Weather”, a research field that deals with the study of phenomena involving the Sun, the solar wind, the magnetosphere, the ionosphere and the thermosphere.
The polar regions are a natural laboratory for the research in this field and the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) currently manages, among others, an ionospheric observatory at Concordia Station.
The observatory hosts 4 GNSS ionospheric scintillation and TEC monitor (GISTM) receivers which collect real-time data 24/7; the first one (DMC0S) was installed in 2009, followed by DMC1S in 2010, DMC2S in 2013 and DMC0P in 2017.
To monitor such transient effects as ionospheric scintillations, the receivers sample the signals of different GNSS constellations in both amplitude and phase, with a frequency of at least 50Hz.
The raw data are collected and processed at Concordia by dedicated software and transmitted in Italy, where the INGV-eSWua system provides near real-time ionospheric scintillation data and products (amplitude scintillation index, phase scintillation index, Total Electron Content, scintillation maps, etc.) harmonized among different instruments and accessible in a standardized and interoperable distribution format.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2009-11-01
Identifier
- Code
- 10.13127/eswua/gnss
- Purpose
- Ionospheric monitoring
- Status
- On going
Principal investigator
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 1
- Topic category
-
- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Extent
))
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2009-11-01
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Continual
- GCMD - Locations
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- ANTARCTICA
- Gazetteer of Antarctica
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- Concordia Station
- Dome C
- GCMD - Providers
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- IT/PNRA
- IT/INGV
- GCMD - Science Keywords
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- SPACE WEATHER ADVISORIES
- TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT
- IONOSPHERE/MAGNETOSPHERE DYNAMICS
- NASA Thesaurus
-
- ionospheric propagation
- Earth ionosphere
- upper ionosphere
- ionospheric disturbances
- GCMD - Instruments
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- GNSS RECEIVER
Resource constraints
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
Associated resource
- Title
- PNRA 2009/B.03 - Osservazioni in alta atmosfera e climatologia spaziale
Identifier
- Code
- PNRA 2009/B.03
- Association Type
- Dependency
- Initiative Type
- Project
Associated resource
- Title
- PNRA_14/00133 - LINEA A1 OSSERVATORI PERMANENTI - Monitoraggio Bipolare del TEC e delle Scintillazioni Ionosferiche Stazione Concordia
Identifier
- Code
- PNRA_14/00133
- Association Type
- Dependency
- Initiative Type
- Project
Associated resource
- Title
- XXV Italian Expedition to Antarctica
- Date (Validity Begins)
- 2009
- Date (Validity Expires)
- 2010
- Edition
- 25
Identifier
- Code
- 25
- Association Type
- Dependency
- Initiative Type
- Campaign
Associated resource
- Title
- XXVI Italian Expedition to Antarctica
- Date (Validity Begins)
- 2010
- Date (Validity Expires)
- 2011
- Edition
- 26
Identifier
- Code
- 26
- Association Type
- Dependency
- Initiative Type
- Campaign
Associated resource
- Title
- XXIX Italian Expedition to Antarctica
- Date (Validity Begins)
- 2014
- Date (Validity Expires)
- 2015
- Edition
- 29
Identifier
- Code
- 29
- Association Type
- Dependency
- Initiative Type
- Campaign
Associated resource
- Title
- XXXIII Italian Expedition to Antarctica
- Date (Validity Begins)
- 2017
- Date (Validity Expires)
- 2018
- Edition
- 33
Identifier
- Code
- 33
- Association Type
- Dependency
- Initiative Type
- Campaign
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- JSON
- OnLine resource
-
eSWua web service
Web service landing page for access and download the data
- OnLine resource
-
eSWua real-time GNSS data
Real-time data visualization and access for the GNSS ionospheric scintillation and TEC monitor receivers of the INGV ionospheric network
- OnLine resource
-
eSWua GNSS data landing page
Landing page for the data collection of the eSWua GNSS ionospheric scintillation data
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Collection
Report
Result
- Title
- COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
- This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Pass
- true
Resource lineage
- Statement
- This data collection contains Level-I data (scintillation and TEC parameters) elaborated from the raw data acquired by the GISTM receivers placed in Concordia and indexed in the eSWua scintillation database.
- Hierarchy level
- Collection
Reference System Information
Identifier
- Code
- WGS84
- Hierarchy level
- Collection
Instrument
- Identifier
- DMC0S, DMC1S, DMC2S
- Type
- NovAtel GSV4004 - GNSS ionospheric scintillation and TEC monitor (GISTM) receiver
Instrument
- Identifier
- DMC0P
- Type
- Septentrio PolaRx5S- GNSS ionospheric scintillation and TEC monitor (GISTM) receiver
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/3c7a5742-9e21-49c7-b6f2-2308c26637ab
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Collection
- Metadata linkage
- https://doi.org/10.13127/eswua/gnss
- Date info (Revision)
- 2021-06-24T14:05:36
- Date info (Creation)
- 2021-02-05T09:45:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
Overviews
Spatial extent
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