Two special sessions on PFISR initial results at the Fall AGU, including 7 talks and 11 posters with PFISR data.
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AMISR @ AGU
Written by on Dec. 1, 2007 in Meetings, Science Highlights.
PFISR Featured in Geophysical Research Letters
Written by on Oct. 1, 2007 in News and Articles, Science Highlights.
Geophysical Research Letters October 2007 issue features PFISR on the cover with an article demonstrating the volumetric imaging capability of the system.
PFISR @ CEDAR
Written by on July 1, 2007 in Meetings, Science Highlights.
CEDAR Workshop in Santa Fe has special
PFISR session, "Poker Flat AMISR:
The first six months," as well as "Poker Flat 2007 Winter Campaign" session.
First Rocket Campaign at Poker Flat
Written by on Feb. 1, 2007 in Science Highlights.
Poker Flat AMISR operated 105 hours over 18 nights in support of JOULE II and ROPA rockets in January and February. At right, a TMA trail released by 1 of 4 JOULE II rockets in the early morning of 19 January. Real-time AMISR data show the strong auroral precipitation and large eastward ion flow that met launch criteria.
TOP: Long pulse electron density vs. altitude and time from seven simultaneous AMISR beams; look angles given above each plot. BOTTOM: ion velocity vs. time and latitude for two hours around launch.
PFISR Rocket Campaign Preparations
Written by on Jan. 1, 2007 in Deployments, Science Highlights.
Continued testing and development of real-time displays for support of sounding rockets scheduled for January and February 2007. Operations will be conducted from T. Neil Davis Science Center at the Poker Flat Research Range.
First AMISR Planning Meeting
Written by on Oct. 1, 2006 in Meetings.
The First AMISR Science Planning Workshop was held October 11–13, 2006 at Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California, to discuss science plans for the Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar. The goal of the workshop was to explore the range of science objectives that can be achieved with this new NSF facility at the two high-latitude locations, Poker Flat, Alaska, and Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada. Of particular interest was the coordination of future AMISR observations with that of other instrumentation, such as optical measurements, magnetometer data, and GPS TEC data.
Archive of the meeting website, talks, and poster presentations ...
PFISR Deployment Update
Written by on Sept. 1, 2006 in Deployments.
September 2006: Additional 64 panels installed, bringing the total to 96 (see photo).
Summer 2006: More panels integrated and tested at Menlo Park, prior to shipping to Alaska.
April 2006: Data from all deployed sites (Poker Flat, Alaska; Jicamarca, Peru; HAARP, Alaska) presented in numerous talks at Ionospheric Interactions Workshop in Santa Fe.
March 2006: Engineering tests conducted continuously for approximately 2-1/2 weeks, coordinated to occur during the world month run.
February 2006: Although system is not operational, engineering tests are conducted in a mode supporting an optical campaign for Dartmouth College.
January 2006: Installation of permanent power at ...
First AMISR IS Spectra
Written by on Aug. 17, 2005 in amisr, Science Highlights.
Incoherent scatter spectra from 17 August with a little less than 8.5 minutes of integration. Blue lines show the data and red lines the fitted spectra for six consecutive times at four F-region altitudes.
Feature Article on AMISR
Written by on Aug. 1, 2005 in News and Articles.
AMISR project featured in Danish engineering journal Ingeniørens. VIEW ARTICLE >
Gakona, Alaska Deployment Update
Written by on July 1, 2005 in Deployments.
With the addition of eight panels purchased by HAARP, 16 panels will soon be operational. Initial experiments will look for PMSEs.