TNA to UPC-IonSAT Node

Description of the infrastructure

UPC is a public Spanish University at Barcelona on technology.

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UPC-IonSAT res. group has more than 30 years of experience in GNSS research (photogrammetry, new models for ionospheric modeling, space weather and precise positioning) including GNSS teaching (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Tm-DcsMAAAAJ&hl=en).

   

6 multicore servers with a total of +100 Xeon processors, ~1 Tb of RAM and 50 Tb in hard disks, running 24/7 Real-Time (RT) intensive processing (e.g. RT ionospheric tomography from +200 GNSS worldwide receivers).

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UNIX servers

    

Classrooms adapted for hybrid (in-person & online) teaching and dissemination.

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Hybrid classrooms

    

Products

Products, Models & Dissemination:

  • Final, rapid, RT and predicted Global Ionospheric Maps for IGS and ICAO,

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  • GNSS-based solar flare indices and EUV flux rate estimation for ESA, and

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  • inversion of challenging ionospheric radio-occultations for EUMETSAT. 

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Experience in international teaching.

     

Areas of access

  • New combinations of Global and European Ionospheric Maps.

  • New improvements and applications of high rate Global Ionospheric Maps.

  • Improvements of GNSS proxy of solar EUV flux rate during flares.

  • Correlation of thermospheric and ionospheric parameters to study coupling mechanisms using ground-based and space-born (in situ and RO) data.

  • Model developments to improve GNSS positioning performance.

       

Info

TNA to UPC-IonSAT Node info(downloadable pdf file)

Contact person: Dr Manuel Hernandez-Pajares (manuel.hernandez@upc.edu), Dr German Olivares-Pulido (german.olivares@upc.edu)