Operating a Network of Multi-Frequency Software-Defined Ionosphere Monitoring Receivers

James T. Curran, Michele Bavaro, Aiden Morrison, Joaquim Fortuny

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Abstract:	This paper follows the development and operation of a wide network of ionosphere monitoring receivers that have been deployed by the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, with the combined goals of providing monitoring capabilities and also of logging broad-band intermediate-frequency samples for post-processing and testing of GNSS receivers. To date these units have been deployed in Ispra, Italy; Trondheim, Norway; Hanoi, Vietnam; Jicamarca, Peru, with further expansion already underway to include Antarctica, Taiwan, and Brazil. Notable contributions of this work are novel development in the design of software-defined scintillation monitoring receivers, exploring the use of low-cost components along with some preliminary analysis of recently collected multi-frequency datasets captured under strong high-latitude and equatorial scintillation conditions.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 28th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2015) September 14 - 18, 2015 Tampa Convention Center Tampa, Florida
Pages:	3469 - 3479
Cite this article:	Curran, James T., Bavaro, Michele, Morrison, Aiden, Fortuny, Joaquim, "Operating a Network of Multi-Frequency Software-Defined Ionosphere Monitoring Receivers," Proceedings of the 28th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2015), Tampa, Florida, September 2015, pp. 3469-3479.
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