SA010
New Frontiers in Space Weather Observations and Measurement Techniques

Session ID#: 79844

Session Description:
Miniaturization of technology has brought us an opportunity for making ever smaller instruments enabling the remote sensing, sounding rocket, and satellite communities to do worthy science from small platforms that lend easily to multipoint measurements.

As we aim to do simultaneous multi-point observations of various space weather phenomena at higher spatial and temporal resolution, we have to ask - What existing techniques can be pushed farther in their performance? What are the important parameters that we need to measure for which we do not yet have a well proven technique or platform? And what are some innovative techniques and platforms that will help us do more with less? 

This session aims to bring together experimentalists and welcomes ideas for new techniques, and also new ways to leverage older techniques in a collaborative and innovative way. Results from new laboratory instrumentation or field/flight testing are also encouraged and invited.

Index Terms:

2194 Instruments and techniques [INTERPLANETARY PHYSICS]
2794 Instruments and techniques [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
7594 Instruments and techniques [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7894 Instruments and techniques [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]


Primary Convener:  Aroh Barjatya, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Physics and Astronomy, Daytona Beach, FL, United States
Conveners:  Patrick Roddy, Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Sarah Jones, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Marcin Pilinski, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Aroh Barjatya, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Physical Sciences Department, Daytona Beach, FL, United States
 
Multi-Scale Simulations of 3D E-layer turbulence from Equatorial to Midlatitudes for GNSS Scattering (487801)
Wendell Horton Jr, University of Texas at Austin, IFS and the Applied Research Laboratory, Austin, TX, United States
 
Efficient Techniques for Making Measurements of Neutral Species in the Near-Earth Space Environment (Invited) (491213)
James H Clemmons1, Rebecca L Bishop2, Aroh Barjatya3, Gary R Swenson4, Peter Dragic5, Patrick S Fowler6, Lance Davis7, Payson M Dunn8, Colleen R Kelly9, Orrin M Bliss9 and Michael T Rose9, (1)University of New Hampshire, Physics, Durham, CA, United States, (2)The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Physical Sciences Department, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (4)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (5)University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire, DUrham, NH, United States, (7)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (8)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (9)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
Nested optical networks: A new frontier in aeronomy research (Invited) (491562)
Asti Bhatt1, Elizabeth A Kendall1, Jonathan J Makela2 and Brian Joseph Harding2,3, (1)SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
The Kiritimati Equatorial Ionospheric Observatory (KEIO) Project Update (495316)
Louise C Gentile1, Richard T Parris1, Todd Pedersen1, Eugene V Dao1, Kenneth Obenberger1, Jeffrey M Holmes1, Jack Hines2, Ralph Kelly2, Zsolt Balint2, Kris Robinson2, Julie J. Moses3 and Sushil Kumar4, (1)Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States, (2)Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State University Research Foundation, Logan, UT, United States, (3)Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Arlington, VA, United States, (4)University of the South Pacific, School Of Engineering and Physics, Suva, Fiji
 
Satellite Formation Flying using GNSS: Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation and Applications to Future Multi-scale Space Weather Observations (498102)
YuXiang Peng1, Wayne Scales1, Anthea Coster2, Dong Lin1 and Gregory Duane Earle1, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States
 
Solid-State Detectors: A Novel Space Mass Spectrometry Technique (508217)
Alisha Vira, Herbert O Funsten, Philip A Fernandes, Ruth M Skoug, Richard Greco, John T Steinberg and Brian Larsen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Imaging Radiation Belt Electron Precipitation from Low-Earth Orbit via Bremsstrahlung X-ray Emissions (508283)
Grant Berland1, Robert Andrew Marshall1, Christopher M Cully2, Connor Myers1, Elliott Davis1 and Rick Kohnert3, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (3)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Advances in Low-Noise Fluxgates Enabling Nanosatellite Constellation Instruments (516434)
David Miles1, Miroslaw Ciurzynski2, David Barona2, B Barry Narod3, John Bennest4, Andy Kale2, Marc Lessard5, David K Milling2, Joshua Larson6, Michael D Webb6, Richard T Dvorsky6, Ian Robert Mann7 and Christian Hansen6, (1)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (2)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (3)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (4)Bennest Enterprises, Summerland, BC, Canada, (5)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (6)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (7)Univ Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
 
The Thermal Gated Ion Time of Flight (TIGTOF) Instrument Overview (516854)
Niharika Hemendra Godbole, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Marc Lessard, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Mark Widholm, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, James H Hecht, The Aerospace Corp, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Dag A Lorentzen, UNIS, Longyearbyen, Norway
 
Improvements to SuperDARN convection analysis and observation techniques (519759)
William A Bristow, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, J. Michael Ruohoniemi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Simon G Shepherd, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States
 
Transportable Dynasonde system for vertical and bi-static ionospheric sounding (522639)
Nikolay A Zabotin1, Albin John Gasiewski2, David Kraft2 and Arvind Aradhya3, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Boulder, United States
 
Preliminary Results from the WINCS sensor on the NASA Green Propellant Infusion Mission (535785)
Andrew C Nicholas, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, Federico A Herrero, Space Systems Research Corporation, Alexandria, VA, United States, Theodore T Finne, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, Hollis Jones, Formerly at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Dean Aalami, Space Instruments, Irvine, United States
 
The RAMS Instrument: Description and Preliminary Results (536857)
Federico A Herrero, Space Systems Research Corporation, Alexandria, VA, United States, Andrew C Nicholas, Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States, Theodore T Finne, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States and Dean Aalami, Space Instruments, Irvine, United States
 
REAL: A CubeSat to Study Energetic Electron Precipitation into Earth’s Atmosphere (551984)
Thomas Sotirelis1, Robyn M Millan2, John Glen Sample3, Leslie A Woodger4, Wen Li5, Romina Nikoukar6, Arlo Johnson3, Mykhaylo Shumko3 and Luisa Capannolo5, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, (3)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (4)Dartmouth College, Physics & Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, (5)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
 
Development and Testing of a Neutral Wind Instrument for Nano-Satellite Applications (557417)
Lee Joseph Kordella1, Gregory Duane Earle1, Stephen E Noel2, Michael McDonald3 and Jacob Kramer2, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States, (3)United States Naval Research Lab, Washington D.C., United States
 
Novel Measurements of Solar Corona during the July 2 2019 Total Eclipse over Chile (557594)
Austin Monaghan1, Paul Bryans2, Ben Berkey2 and Yeimy Rivera3, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
The Procedures and Lessons Learned from On-Orbit Calibration of iMESA-R on STPSat-3 (560740)
Gabriel Wilson, US Air Force Academy, Physics, USAF Academy, CO, United States, Richard L Balthazor, US Air Force Academy, USAF Academy, CO, United States and Matthew G McHarg, United States Air Force Academy, Department of Physics, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
 
The Cylindrical Electron Retarding Potential Analyzer (CERPA): An ejectable instrument for distributed electron temperature measurements (562849)
David Ross Kenward, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, Marc Lessard, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States and Mark Widholm, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States
 
An Apochromatic Lens Based Fabry-Pérot Interferometer for Accurate Measurements of Lower Thermospheric Neutral Wind Velocity and Temperature (564625)
Trond S Trondsen1, Craig Unick1, Devin Wyatt1 and John W Meriwether2, (1)Keo Scientific Ltd., Calgary, Canada, (2)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center of Solar-Terrestrial Research, Newark, NJ, United States
 
Initial results of a new multi-static meteor radar at Andes Lidar Observatory (566463)
Zishun Qiao, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, Alan Liu, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Physical Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, Javier Fuentes, Gemini Observatory, La Serena, Chile, Fabio Vargas, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Chris Adami, ATRAD Pty Ltd, Thebarton, Australia and Julio V Urbina, The Pennsylvania State Univers, University Park, PA, United States
 
Observation plan of the Low-altitude Ionosphere by 2U-size CubeSat (576939)
Kentarou Kitamura, National Insititute of Technology, Tokuyama College, Yamaguchi, Japan, Kazumasa Imai, Kochi Natl College Tech, Nankoku City Kochi, Japan, Taku Takada, National Instituteof Technology, Kochi College, Kochi, Japan, Manabu Shinohara, Kagoshima National College of, Kagoshima, Japan, Makoto Wakabayashi, National Institute of Technology, Niihama College, Niihama, Japan, Masahiro Tokumitsu, National Institute of Technology, Yonago College, Yonago, Japan and KOSEN Space Collaboration Group
 
Rayleigh-Scatter Lidar Technique for Measurement of Thermospheric Neutral Densities (583089)
Leda Sox, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA, United States, Vincent B Wickwar, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States, Christopher R Valenta, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, United States, Jonathan Price, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, W Kent Tobiska, Space Environment Technologies, Pacific Palisades, CA, United States and Jonathan B Snively, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States
 
A Massive Public Repository of Global ELF/VLF Radio Data (586335)
Morris Cohen, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States, Mark Golkowski, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, United States, Umran Inan, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States; Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey and John DeSilva, Stanford University, Electrical Engineering, Stanford, United States
 
Low SWaP Planar Ion Probe for absolute ion density measurements on small satellites (587634)
Aroh Barjatya, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Physics and Astronomy, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, Liam Gunter, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States and Kyle D Hrenyo, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Engineering Physics, Daytona Beach, FL, United States
 
Analysis of high resolution wind fields of the upper atmosphere observed with a multistatic meteor radar network (598330)
Samantha Carlson1, Ryan Volz2, Jorge Luis Chau3, Juha Vierinen4 and Juan Miguel Urco3, (1)Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA, United States, (2)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (3)Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Radar Remote Sensing, Kühlungsborn, Germany, (4)University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
 
Space-based remote sensing strategies for tomographic estimation of exospheric H density (599160)
Gonzalo Cucho-Padin and Lara Waldrop, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
 
Towards Ionospheric TEC Monitoring from the Oceanic Region (613042)
Geoffrey Crowley, ASTRA, Boulder, CO, United States, Syed Irfan Azeem, ASTRA, LLC, United States and Gordon Wilson, Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Performance of Miniaturized Langmuir, Electric Field, and Impedance probe Instruments for CubeSats (619664)
Nathan Paul Tipton1, Caleb Young2, Jordan Haws2, Joel Mork2, Charles Merritt2, Jonathan Phillips2 and Charles Swenson1, (1)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Logan, United States
 
The GRIDS Instrument for the petitSat Mission (620859)
Ryan L Davidson, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, Ben Oborn, Utah State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Logan, United States, Gregory Duane Earle, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Stephen E Noel, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States
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