Scientific Calendar Event



Description
Space Weather is a relatively new discipline of space science that investigates the effects of the Sun’s activity and interactions on human technology, life and health. It is defined as the variations in the space environment induced by different phenomena occurring on the Sun’s surface, like coronal mass ejections and solar flares, and disturbances resulting from interactions between the ionosphere-thermosphere system.
 
Modern technological infrastructures, such as GNSS and HF communication facilities, are susceptible to the adverse impacts of space weather, which can induce large errors in single-frequency GNSS positioning and even radio signal black-outs. Developing countries in Africa are predominantly located in equatorial/low latitudes, where space weather effects make the ionosphere more variable and highly unpredictable. However limited efforts have been made to study the impact of space weather in these regions owing to lack of the required infrastructure.
The NORISK project, a collaboration between INGV and Italian Space Agency, is contributing to fill this gap with the deployments of a new ionospheric observatory in Malindi, Kenya. This workshop, organized in the framework of the NORISK activities, aims to enhance capacity building in GNSS and HF technology for Space Weather monitoring over the Eastern African region. It is therefore planned to include lectures on the following topics.

Topics:
  • Space Weather and Sun-Earth coupling
  • GNSS fundamentals
  • HF Systems generalities
  • The Low latitude ionosphere
  • Ionospheric monitoring, modelling and forecasting
  • ICT infrastructure for space weather data sharing


Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.

 
Go to day
  • Tuesday, 3 October 2023
    • 08:30 - 16:00
      • 08:30 Opening Ceremony 30'
        Speaker: Claudio CESARONI (INGV, Italy), Sharafat GADIMOVA (UNOOSA, Austria), Keith GROVES (Boston College, USA), Bruno NAVA (ICTP, Italy), Joseph Ouko OLWENDO (Pwani University, Kenya), Giancarlo SANTILLI (Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy)
        Material: NORISK Slides
      • 09:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 09:30 Opening ceremony 1h0'
        Speaker: Sharafat GADIMOVA (UNOOSA, Austria), Claudio CESARONI (INGV, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Introduction to GNSS 1 1h0'
        Speaker: John Foster RAQUET (Integrated Solutions for Systems, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 11:30 Discussion 30'
      • 12:00 Lunch 1h0'
      • 13:00 Introduction to GNSS 2 1h0'
        Speaker: John Foster RAQUET (Integrated Solutions for Systems, USA)
      • 14:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 14:30 Introduction to GNSS 3 1h0'
        Speaker: John Foster RAQUET (Integrated Solutions for Systems, USA)
      • 15:30 Discussion 30'
  • Wednesday, 4 October 2023
    • 08:00 - 16:00
      • 08:00 Introduction to SW 1h0'
        Speaker: Luca SPOGLI (INGV, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 09:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 09:30 Introduction to Ionosphere 1h0'
        Speaker: Claudio CESARONI (INGV, Italy), L. ALFONSI
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Low-latitude ionospheric electrodynamics 1h0'
        Speaker: Joseph Ouko OLWENDO (Pwani University, Kenya)
        Material: Slides
      • 11:30 Discussion 30'
      • 12:00 Lunch 1h0'
      • 13:00 Ionospheric irregularities / scintillations 1h0'
        Speaker: Keith GROVES (Boston College, USA)
      • 14:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 14:30 HF vertical sounding 1h0'
        Speaker: Michael PEZZOPANE (INGV, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Discussion 30'
  • Thursday, 5 October 2023
    • 08:00 - 16:00
      • 08:00 Ionospheric monitoring 30'
        Speaker: Kouadio Olivier OBROU (Université FHB de Cocody UFR SSMT Laboratoire de Physique de l'Atmosphère, Cote d'Ivoire)
        Material: Slides
      • 08:30 Introduction to Ionospheric modelling 1h0'
        Speaker: Bruno NAVA (ICTP, Italy)
      • 09:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 10:00 The NeQuick model 30'
        Speaker: Yenca Olivia MIGOYA-ORUE (ICTP, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Modelling the ionosphere over Africa with ML 1h0'
        Speaker: Daniel Izuikedinachi OKOH (Space Environment Research Facility Centre for Atmospheric Research National Space Research and Development Agency, Nigeria)
        Material: Slides
      • 11:30 Discussion 30'
      • 12:00 Lunch 1h0'
      • 13:00 Hands-on on Ionogram scaling/visit to ionosonde 1h0'
        Speaker: Michael PEZZOPANE (INGV, Italy), Claudio CESARONI (INGV, Italy)
        Material: Hands on Slides
      • 14:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 14:30 Hands-on on Ionogram scaling/visit to ionosonde 1h0'
        Speaker: Michael PEZZOPANE (INGV, Italy), Claudio CESARONI (INGV, Italy)
      • 15:30 Discussion 30'
  • Friday, 6 October 2023
    • 08:00 - 16:00
      • 08:00 Estimation of Total Electron Content from GNSS measurements 1h0'
        Speaker: Claudio CESARONI (INGV, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 09:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 09:30 Hands-on TEC calibration 1h0'
        Speaker: Claudio CESARONI (INGV, Italy)
      • 10:30 Hands-on TEC calibration 1h0'
        Speaker: Claudio CESARONI (INGV, Italy)
      • 11:30 Discussion 30'
      • 12:00 Lunch 1h0'
      • 13:00 Hands-on Scintillation/TEC from low cost receivers 1h0'
        Speaker: Rezy PRADIPTA (Boston College, USA)
        Material: Hand on
      • 14:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 14:30 Hands-on Scintillation/TEC from low cost receivers 1h0'
        Speaker: Rezy PRADIPTA (Boston College, USA)
      • 15:30 Discussion 30'
  • Saturday, 7 October 2023
    • 08:00 - 13:00
      • 08:00 ESA Space Weather services 1h0'
        Speaker: Alessandra DI CECCO (ASI, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 09:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 09:30 Multi-instrument approach to ionospheric studies 1h0'
        Speaker: Lucilla ALFONSI (INGV, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Low-Cost SDR-Based Ionosonde / HF bistatic ionospheric sounder data ingestion into NeQuick 2 1h0'
        Speaker: Anton KASHCHEYEV (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
        Material: Slides
      • 11:30 Discussion 30'
      • 12:00 Lunch 1h0'
  • Monday, 9 October 2023
    • 08:00 - 16:00
      • 08:00 Sun-Earth interaction 1h0'
        Speaker: Christine Marie Eugenie AMORY (Sorbonne University, France)
        Material: Files
      • 09:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 09:30 Madrigal DB 1h0'
        Speaker: Anthea Jane COSTER (M.I.T. - Atmospheric Sciences Group Haystack Observatory, USA)
      • 10:30 How to study a geomagnetic storm 1h0'
        Speaker: Christine Marie Eugenie AMORY (Sorbonne University, France), Yenca Olivia MIGOYA-ORUE (ICTP, Italy) (ICTP, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 11:30 Discussion 30'
      • 12:00 Lunch 1h0'
      • 13:00 GNSS reflectometry 1h0'
        Speaker: Yu Tong MORTON (University of Colordado, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 14:30 Big GNSS Data: GNSS Ionosphere and some applications 1h30'
        Speaker: Manuel HERNANDEZ-PAJARES (UPC-IonSAT, Spain)
        Material: Slides
  • Tuesday, 10 October 2023
    • 08:00 - 16:00
      • 08:00 Briefs on Equatorial Electrojet 1h0'
        Speaker: Akeem Babatunde RABIU (UN African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education - English Obafemi Awolowo University Campus, Nigeria)
        Material: Slides
      • 09:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 09:30 Deriving Electron Density Profiles with GNSS RO 30'
        Speaker: Bruno NAVA (ICTP, Italy)
      • 10:00 Characterizing Irregularities with GNSS RO 30'
        Speaker: Keith GROVES (Boston College, USA)
      • 10:30 GNSS multipath propagation effects and mitigation 1h0'
        Presented by Yu Tong MORTON.
        Speaker: Gary A. McGRAW (Genova Technologies, UA)
        Material: Slides
      • 11:30 Discussion 30'
      • 12:00 Lunch 1h0'
      • 13:00 Hands-on on low cost GNSS receivers 1h0'
        Speaker: Miquel GARCIA FERNANDEZ (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
      • 14:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 14:30 Hands-on on low cost GNSS receivers 1h0'
        Speaker: Miquel GARCIA FERNANDEZ (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
      • 15:30 Discussion 30'
  • Wednesday, 11 October 2023
    • 08:00 - 16:00
      • 08:00 Space missions related to space weather research. 1h0'
        Speaker: Marco CASTRONUOVO (ASI, Italy)
      • 09:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 09:30 EclipseNB: low-cost GNSS receivers to study ionospheric response to a solar eclipse 1h0'
        Speaker: Anton KASHCHEYEV (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Ionospheric effects on SBAS 1h0'
        Speaker: Todd Frederick WALTER (Stanford University, USA)
      • 11:30 Discussion 30'
      • 12:00 Lunch 1h0'
      • 13:00 ISR and GNSS 1h0'
        Speaker: Anthea Jane COSTER (M.I.T. - Atmospheric Sciences Group Haystack Observatory, USA)
      • 14:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 14:30 TIDs related studies 1h0'
        Speaker: John Bosco HABARULEMA (South African National Space Agency, South Africa)
        Material: Files
      • 15:30 Discussion 30'
  • Thursday, 12 October 2023
    • 08:00 - 13:00
      • 08:00 Space Weather activities at SANSA 1h0'
        Speaker: John Bosco HABARULEMA (South African National Space Agency, South Africa)
        Material: Slides
      • 09:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 09:30 An introduction to the African Geophysical Society 30'
        Speaker: Kouadio Olivier OBROU (Université FHB de Cocody UFR SSMT Laboratoire de Physique de l'Atmosphère, Cote d'Ivoire)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:00 Present Status of Ionospheric and GNSS Research Infrastructure in Africa 45'
        Speaker: Akeem Babatunde RABIU (UN African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education - English Obafemi Awolowo University Campus, Nigeria)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:45 Closing remarks 1h15'
        Speaker: Claudio CESARONI (INGV, Italy), Sharafat GADIMOVA (UNOOSA, Austria), Keith GROVES (Boston College, USA), Bruno NAVA (ICTP, Italy), Joseph Ouko OLWENDO (Pwani University, Kenya), Giancarlo SANTILLI (Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy), Dennis MURURU (Kenya Space Agency, Kenya)
      • 12:00 Lunch 1h0'