Over the last decades, our scientific understanding and user’s community appreciation of the ionospheric space weather and its impacts on Earth’s environment, and some of the technological systems and human beings’ priority areas, h...
The study of the Earth’s ionosphere is a topic that has increased in relevance over the past few decades. The ability to predict the ionosphere’s behavior, as well as to mitigate the effects of its rapid changes, is a matter of primary im...
With the continuous advancement of deep learning algorithms and the rapid growth of computational resources, deep learning technology has undergone numerous milestone developments, evolving from simple BP neural networks into more complex and powerfu...
Geomagnetic storm-detection algorithms are important for space-weather-warning services to provide reliable warnings (e.g., ionospheric disturbances). For that reason, a new approach using an adaptive filter (least mean squares algorithm) for the det...
This paper proposes a space weather forecasting system at geostationary orbit for high-energy electron flux (>2 MeV). The forecasting model involves multiple sensors on multiple satellites. The sensors interconnect and evaluate each other to predic...
Atmospheric water vapor is one of the important parameters for weather and climate studies. Generally, atmospheric water vapor can be monitored by some techniques, such as the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), radiosonde (RS), remote sensing...
A crucial and fundamental type of precipitation monitoring is the automatic observation of precipitation by ground stations. However, the typical quality control methods that are applied to rainfall present restrictions because of their discontinuiti...
Mobile weather radars have been routinely deployed to acquire high-quality meteorological data for research purposes, particularly for monitoring rapidly evolving weather phenomena at low altitudes. However, identifying an optimal location for mobile...
The successful deployment of 3D printing in outdoor applications is contingent upon the selection of materials capable of withstanding the degrading effects of weather. This study evaluates the colorimetric performance of various 3D-printed polymers...
Urban green spaces are an important part of the urban ecosystem and hold significant ecological value. To effectively protect these green spaces, urban managers urgently need to identify them and monitor their changes. Common urban vegetation positio...
This work concerns the performance analysis of the sensors contained in a victim detection system. The system is a mobile platform with gas sensors utilized for real time victim localization in urban environments after a disaster has caused the entra...
Measuring magnetic fields in the inner corona, the interface between the solar chromosphere and outer corona, is of paramount importance if we aim to understand the energetic transformations taking place there, and because it is at the origin of proc...
This study presents a production and development process of an IoT-based weather monitoring and emergency notification system for confined-space environments. The system comprises four working hardware stations cooperating through a data transfer com...
Radon is a natural and radioactively well-known carcinogenic indoor air pollutant. Since 2020, a radon short-term proactive methodology has been proposed by Swiss authorities, which aims to evaluate the probability of overpassing the national referen...
Quantifying nocturnal bird migration at high resolution is essential for (1) understanding the phenology of migration and its drivers, (2) identifying critical spatio-temporal protection zones for migratory birds, and (3) assessing the risk of collis...
Recent advancements have led to a growing prevalence of studies examining ionospheric and atmospheric anomalies as potential precursors to earthquakes. In this context, the study involved analyzing variations in ionospheric total electron content (TE...
Load monitoring can help users learn end-use energy consumption so that specific energy-saving actions can be taken to reduce the energy consumption of buildings. Nonintrusive monitoring (NIM) is preferred because of its low cost and nondisturbance o...
The use of near-Earth space has grown dramatically during the last decades, resulting in thousands of active and inactive satellites and a huge amount of space debris. To observe and monitor the near-Earth space environment, radar systems play a majo...
In the context of ongoing global warming and urbanization, the need for reliable temperature monitoring in urban areas is increasing. Such monitoring serves multiple purposes, including assessing urban heat island (UHI) intensity, evaluating climate...
As the current solar cycle 25 progresses and moves towards solar maxima, solar activity is increasing and extreme space weather events are taking place. Two severe geomagnetic storms accompanied by two large Forbush decreases in galactic cosmic ray i...
Moscow State University is developing a project for a multi-satellite constellation intended for the monitoring of space radiation. A number of small satellites of CubeSat format were launched into selected orbits crossing the wide range of magnetic...
Cosmic rays were discovered by the Austrian physicist Victor Hess in 1912 in a series of balloon experiments performed between 1911 and 1912. Cosmic rays are an integral part of fundamental and applied research in the field of solar–terrestrial...
As a frequently-occurred phenomenon in the high-latitude region, ionospheric scintillations affect the stable service of the positioning navigation and timing service of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), calling for an urgent need of mon...
Upper air temperature measurements are critical for understanding weather patterns, boundary-layer processes, climate change, and the validation of space-based observations. However, there have been growing concerns over data discrepancies, the lack...
An accurate understanding of dissimilarities in geomagnetic variability between quiet and disturbed periods has the potential to vastly improve space weather diagnosis. In this work, we exploit some recently developed methods of dynamical system theo...
Scintillation and total electron content (TEC) are the two major examples of the top-side ionospheric parameters that are recorded differently by most Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. The new GPS sensor created by the Atmospheric and Space...
The monitoring of crop phenology informs decisions in environmental and agricultural management at both global and farm scales. Current methodologies for crop monitoring using remote sensing data track crop growth stages over time based on single, sc...
Space-based radar sensors have transformed Earth observation since their first use by Seasat in 1978. Radar instruments are less affected by daylight or weather conditions than optical counterparts, suitable for continually monitoring the global bios...
Solar radiation storms, caused by high-energy solar energetic particles (SEPs) released during solar flares or coronal mass ejections (CMEs), have a substantial impact on the Earth’s environment. These storms can disrupt satellite operations, i...
The plasma analyzer (PMA) on the Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) meteorological satellite series is a critical sensor of the space environment monitoring package that is capable of the comprehensive in situ detection of the thermal plasma environment and surface...
Brightness temperature (Tb) observations from the European Space Agency (ESA) Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity (SMOS) instrument are passively monitored in the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Integrated Forecasting System (IFS)...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center (SPoRT) has been part of a collaborative effort within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite Syst...
According to the characteristics of the LEO space particles radiation environment of China’s Fengyun No. 3 (FY-3) polar-orbiting meteorological satellites, in order to monitor the characteristics, and space–time distribution of charged pa...
It is often difficult to describe natural time series due to implicit dependences and correlated noise. During anomalous natural processes, anomalous features appear in data. They have a nonstationary structure and do not allow us to apply traditiona...
All-sky imaging systems are currently very popular. They are used in ground-based meteorological stations and as a crucial part of the weather monitors for autonomous robotic telescopes. Data from all-sky imaging cameras provide important information...
Approaching space target tracking is a typical and challenging mission in the space situational awareness (SSA) field. As the space-based radar is able to monitor the space targets of interest full-weather all-time, the space-based radar system is ut...
A combination of multispectral visible, infra-red and microwave sensors on the constellation of international Earth-observing satellites are providing unprecedented observations for all Earth domains over multiple decades (i.e., atmosphere, land, oce...
The ionosphere is a significant component of the geospace environment. Storm-induced ionospheric anomalies severely affect the performance of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) and human space activiti...
In a recent paper, we extended a previous study on the solar solar influence to the generation of the March 2012 heatwave in the northeastern USA. In the present study we check the possible relationship of solar activity with the early March 2012 bad...
It is essential to provide high-integrity navigation information for safety-critical applications. Global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) play an important role in these applications because they can provide global, high-accuracy, all-weather na...
An optimal payload selection conducted in the frame of the H2020 ONION project (id 687490) is presented based on the ability to cover the observation needs of the Copernicus system in the time period 2020–2030. Payload selection is constrained by the...
During extreme space weather events, transient geomagnetic disturbances initiated by solar eruptive activities can induce geomagnetically induced currents (GICs), which have severe impacts on power grid systems and oil/gas pipelines. Observations ind...
This study presents a comprehensive analysis of pre- and co-seismic ionospheric disturbances associated with the 2023 Ms6.2 Jishishan earthquake by leveraging the unique observational strengths of BDS, particularly its high-orbit satellites. A multi-...
The limited resource of Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) is precious and most telecommunication, weather and navigational satellites are placed in this orbit. In order to guarantee the safety and health of active satellites, advanced surveillance and...
Total phosphorus (TP) is the main limiting factor of eutrophication for most inland waters globally. However, the combination of the limited temporal-spatial ranges of traditional manual sampling, poor spectral resolutions, and weather-vulnerable sat...
This paper focuses on the opportunity to use multiple star trackers to help space situational awareness and space surveillance. Catalogs of space debris around Earth are usually based on ground-based measurements, which rely on data provided by groun...
Power systems and their primary components, mostly the transmission and distribution of overhead lines, substations, and other power facilities, are distributed in space and are exposed to various atmospheric and meteorological conditions. These cond...
Space weather exerts a significant influence on the Earth’s atmosphere, driving a variety of physical processes, including the production of cosmogenic radionuclides. Among these, 7Be is a naturally occurring radionuclide formed through spallat...
Water vapor plays a crucial role in maintaining global energy balance and water cycle, and it is closely linked to various meteorological disasters. Precipitable water vapor (PWV), as an indicator of variations in atmospheric water vapor content, has...
An auroral substorm is an important physical process of energy accumulation and explosive release in the Earth’s magnetosphere, and is an important research object of space environment monitoring and space weather warnings. A westward traveling...
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