European Digital Upper Atmosphere Server

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• European Digital Upper Atmosphere Server
• DIAS
• A project co-funded by the eContent programme of
  the European Commission

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Overview

• The project aims at the development of a
  European digital data collection on the state of
  the upper atmosphere and on the efficient
  promotion of this collection to the world market.

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Objectives

• To develop a pan-European digital data collection
  on the state of the upper atmosphere based on
  historical data collections and on the real-time
  information provided by several European
  ionospheric stations.
• To develop a new digital server for the
  management and distribution of this collection,
  based on cutting edge technologies.
• To develop, through the collaboration of the
  private sector companies that belong to DIAS
  consortium, all necessary actions for the
  efficient promotion of this pan-European digital
  data collection and new added value products
  based on the raw data, to the European and
  worldwide market.

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Why Europe needs DIAS?

• Currently, the existing digital European
  stations operate independently
• This independent operation creates several
  barriers for transforming this information into
  usable data, products and services, failing to
  address the increased market demands for a
  unified collection of historical and real time
  upper-atmosphere data, especially nowcast and
  forecast services for the European region.
• DIAS will overcome this problem by operating a
  system competitive to those that exist already
  for Australia and the US.

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Groups of potential users of DIAS products and
services

• Aviation industry (civil and military)
• Defense
• HF communication Systems
• Satellite operators
• Commercial satellite designers
• Navigation Systems
• Ground-based systems managers and operators
• Upper atmosphere researchers
• Seismic hazards researchers

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Data, products and services

• Real-time and archive ionograms

• Real-time and archive SAO files

• Real-time f-plots of fmin, foF2, and M(3000)F2

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Data, products and services

• Ionospheric maps over the European area of
  monthly median foF2 and M(3000)F2 based on SIRM,
  Zolesi et al., 1993
• Ionospheric maps over the European area of the
  real-time foF2 and M(3000)F2 for individual
  epochs for the now-casting frequency management
  based on SIRMUP, Zolesi et al., 2004
• Ionospheric maps over the European area of
  instantaneous foF2 and M(3000)F2 values at a time
  specified by the user
• Ionospheric forecast maps over the European area
  representative of foF2 conditions up to 24-hours
  ahead based on SIRMUP, Zolesi et al., 2003,
  calculating the forecasting values according to
  the Muhtarov et al., 2002 model.

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Data, products and services

• Real-time maps of ionospheric electron density
  over the European area at user-specified heights
  Stanislawska et al., 2001
• Maps over the European area of monthly median MUF
  for different transmission points
• Real-time maps of the Maximum Usable Frequency
  (MUF) over the European area for different
  transmission points.
• Dominici and Zolesi, 1987 Davies, 1990

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Data, products and services

• Ionospheric alert indexes foF2AI () and
  M(3000)F2AI () with the sections of the map
  coloured appropriately to show where the criteria
  hold Cander et al., 2005

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Dissemination Activities

• Establishment of DIAS users network.
  hyperlink
• Electronic newsletters to registered users with
  information on new products release,
  announcements of forthcoming meetings and
  workshops and upgrades of the DIAS prototype.
  hyperlink

• EGU 2004
• hyperlink
• COSPAR 2004
• hyperlink
• BOULDER SWW 2005
• hyperlink
• EGU 2005
• hyperlink
• IES 2005
• hyperlink
• URSI 2005
• hyperlink

• Publication of articles /
• Presentations to conferences

• Users meetings
• First meeting Erice, Sicily, Sept. 2004
• Second meeting Athens, Greece, April 2005

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Commercial Exploitation Activities

• Questionnaire, submission to potential users,
  compilation of information

• Definition of final commercial management
  structure of DIAS
• Business plan for the exploitation of services
  after the end of the project

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DIAS Home Page http//www.iono.noa.gr/D
ias/
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Usage Statistics for Dec 2004 - Mar 2005
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DIAS Access Page www.iono.noa.gr/DIAS/DIAS-Syst
em.htm
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DIAS Prototype http//213.203.172.838080/dias/
servlet/dias.servlet.DIASLogonFormServlet
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DIAS Prototype / Ionograms http//213.203.172.8
38080/dias/servlet/dias.servlet.DIASLogonFormServ
let
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DIAS Prototype / f-plots http//213.203.172.83
8080/dias/servlet/dias.servlet.DIASLogonFormServle
t
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DIAS Prototype / maps http//213.203.172.83808
0/dias/servlet/dias.servlet.DIASLogonFormServlet
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DIAS milestones

• June 2004 ? DIAS Web site
• October 2004 ? Cartography of the market
• December 2004 ? State of the art report
• March 2005 ? Specification of DIAS added value
  and services
• March 2005 ? Establishment of DIAS users
  network
• March 2005 ? Release of DIAS prototype
• April 2005 ? User needs assessment
  report
• June 2005 ? Development of new added
  value products and services
• November 2005 ? Release of the final Digital
  upper Atmosphere Server
• December 2005 ? Final business plan for the
  exploitation of DIAS services after the end of
  the project
• February 2006 ? Final Conference

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DIAS concortium European Digital Upper
Atmosphere Server
National Observatory of Athens, Greece
(NOA) University of Athens, Greece
(UOA) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
(CCLRC) National Institute of Geophysics and
Volcanology, Italy (INGV) Swedish Institute of
Space Physics (IRF) Leibniz-Institute of
Atmospheric Physics, Germany (IAP) Space
Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences
(SRC-WARSAW) 01 Pliroforiki, Greece
(01P) Blustaff, Italy (BLS)
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DIAS data contributors European Digital Upper
Atmosphere Server
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DIAS info

• Co-Funded by the eContent Programme of the
  European Commission
• Project life time 2 years
• March 2004 February 2006
• Project Coordinator
• Anna Belehaki
• National Observatory of Athens    Institute
  for Space Applications Remote Sensing   
  Metaxa and Vas. Pavlou    Palaia Penteli
  15236, Greece  
• Tel [phone]  
• Fax [phone]  
• Email belehaki_at_space.noa.gr  
• http//www.iono.noa.gr