The National Observatory of Athens operates a real-time ionospheric stations, a Digisonde Portable Sounder - 4 (DPS-4) at Penteli site (38oN, 23.5oE) since September 2000. Within 2014 the Athens Digisonde will be upgraded to DPS4D with funding from the National Programme KRIPIS "Development of Research Entities".
The visitors of this website can access real time observations updated every 2 min as well as archived observations from the recent period.
Registration is free to all users.
More at >> Athens Digisonde Portal
DIAS is a pan-European distributed information server capable of supporting the acquisition, elaboration, evaluation, dissemination and archiving of the ionospheric observations from eight European Digisondes. DIAS serves the development of value added products and services for the ionospheric specification in real time, the short-term ionospheric forecasting up to 24h ahead for foF2 at single-station locations and for the whole area in terms of European maps and the long-term ionospheric prediction maps of foF2, M(3000)F2 and MUF for the European area. Lately, DIAS releases maps of TEC and of the topside electron density over Europe in near-real time.
More at >> DIAS Portal
ESPAS: Near-Earth space data infrastructure for e-science
ESPAS aims at building the e-Infrastructure necessary to support the access to observations, the modeling and prediction of the near-Earth space environment extending from the Earth's atmosphere up to the outer radiation belts.
ESPAS is a consortium of more than 20 partners working to link more than 40 data repositories containing heterogeneous data from ground and space, in situ and remote sensed, developed for the needs of different users.
The final ESPAS platform will be released in April 2015.
More at >> ESPAS web site
SWSC is an electronic, open access, peer reviewed journal supported by COST Action ES0803 and SIDC.
Editors-in-Chief: Anna Belehaki and Jean Lilensten
In 2014 Thomson-Reuters computed for the first time a two-year impact factor for SWSC, based on articles published in SWSC in the years 2011 and 2012 and cited in 2013. This 2013 impact factor is 2.519 (1.333 excluding self citations, i.e., references in SWSC articles to SWSC articles).
This COST Action has the primary goal to form an interdisciplinary network between European scientists dealing with different issues of Geospace, as well as warning system developers and operators, to:
- Foster the ties between research and technology establishments,
- Assess the European potential in advanced observational and modeling techniques and in reliable products and services
- Define the users needs
- Determine and recommend the specifications for new products and services that best meet the user's requirements.
The Action ended in November 2012 and the final report is published at SWSC.