SA43C:
Exploring Geospace: Novel Instruments and New Opportunities I


Session ID#: 11155

Session Description:
The geospace environment extends from the stratopause upwards into the plasmasphere. Significant challenges exist as well as  new opportunities; satellite rideshares, small satellites,commercial suborbital, UAS/UAV platforms, balloons, and the ready availability of new COTS technologies and high-speed microprocessors have opened up new approaches for groundbased instrumentation and networks of sensors. We solicit talks with a focus on the exploration of geospace using new techniques, new instruments, and/or new approaches. We include and welcome advances in groundbased measurement techniques especially with an eye toward how those sensors can be proliferated and/or networked. We recognize that models are an important part of the process of exploration and welcome talks that address what models tell us about the need for sampling and parameters that must be measured in order to aid in the development of our understanding; Observing System Simulation Experiments can be used to supply a technology pull for the community.
Primary Convener:  Larry J Paxton, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Aaron J Ridley, University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Douglas E. Rowland, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States and Juha Vierinen, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States
Chairs:  Larry J Paxton, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States and Aaron J Ridley, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Larry J Paxton, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:

0394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
2494 Instruments and techniques [IONOSPHERE]
3394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
7894 Instruments and techniques [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Transition Region Explorer: Observing the Multi-Scale Dynamics of Geospace (Invited) (85118)
Eric Donovan, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
New Approaches and Instrumentation for in-situ Exploration of the Upper Atmosphere (Invited) (59344)
James H Clemmons, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, United States
Electronic Microchannel Plate Particle Detector Design for a CubeSat Time-of-Flight Reflectron Mass Spectrometer (65487)
Michelle L Pyle1, Ryan L Davidson1, Charles Swenson2 and Erik A Syrstad3, (1)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Logan, UT, United States, (3)Space Dynamics Lab, Logan, United States
The Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task (SPORT) Mission (65483)
James F Spann1, Charles Swenson2, Otavio Durão3, Luis Loures4, Roderick A Heelis5, Rebecca L Bishop6, Guan Le7, Mangalathayil Ali Abdu8, Linda Habash Krause9, Clezio Marcos De Nardin3, Eloi Fonseca4 and The Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task (SPORT) Mission, (1)NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States, (2)Utah State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Logan, UT, United States, (3)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (4)ITA Technological Institute of Aeronautics, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (5)University Texas Dallas, Richardson, United States, (6)Aerospace Corporation Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Aeronomy, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (9)NASA Marshall Space Flght Ctr, Huntsville, United States
The Ionosphere's Pocket Litter: Exploiting Crowd-Sourced Observations (Invited) (73392)
Ethan S Miller1, Nathaniel A Frissell2, Stephen Roland Kaeppler3, Robert Demajistre4 and Andrew A Knuth1, (1)JHU/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (3)SRI International, Menlo Park, United States, (4)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States
Utilizing new GNSS capabilities for exploring Geospace (Invited) (83446)
Anthea Coster, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States
The Michelson Interferometer for Global High-resolution Thermospheric Imaging (MIGHTI): Final Instrument Design and Update on Integration and Test of the Thermsopheric Wind and Temperature Instrument on the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) (78533)
Christoph R Englert1, John Harlander2, Charles Jeremy Brown1, Kenneth David Marr3, Jonathan J Makela4, Brian J Harding5, Michael H Stevens1, Jed J Hancock6 and Thomas J Immel7, (1)Naval Research Lab DC, Space Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Saint Cloud State University, St Cloud, MN, United States, (3)Praxis Inc., Alexandria, VA, United States, (4)University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, (5)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (6)Space Dynamics Laboratory, North Logan, UT, United States, (7)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States

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