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GIRO Group

ResourceID
spase://SMWG/Observatory/GIRO

Description

GIRO provides accurate specification of the electron density in the Earth's
ionosphere at >60 locations in the world. 37 GIRO locations provide real-time ionospheric
data to the central server in Lowell, Massachusetts within several minutes. GIRO sites
are equipped by Digisonde instruments that use the high frequency remote sounding
technique to probe the bottomside ionosphere from 80 km up to the peak of ionospheric
plasma density. Real-time and retrospective data from GIRO locations are ingested in Lowell
Digital Ionogram DataBase (DIDBase) GIRO data are open for public access via DIDBase and
DriftBase Web Portals, and custom software tools for digisonde data analysis, SAO Explorer
and Drift Explorer.

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Observatory

ResourceID
spase://SMWG/Observatory/GIRO
ResourceHeader
ResourceName
GIRO Group
AlternateName
Global Ionospheric Radio Observatory Group
ReleaseDate
2024-01-17 12:34:56Z
RevisionHistory
RevisionEvent
ReleaseDate
2023-10-20 14:47:31
Note
Edited Acknowledgement, added Information URL, Contact, and updated SPASE version LNG.
Description

GIRO provides accurate specification of the electron density in the Earth's
ionosphere at >60 locations in the world. 37 GIRO locations provide real-time ionospheric
data to the central server in Lowell, Massachusetts within several minutes. GIRO sites
are equipped by Digisonde instruments that use the high frequency remote sounding
technique to probe the bottomside ionosphere from 80 km up to the peak of ionospheric
plasma density. Real-time and retrospective data from GIRO locations are ingested in Lowell
Digital Ionogram DataBase (DIDBase) GIRO data are open for public access via DIDBase and
DriftBase Web Portals, and custom software tools for digisonde data analysis, SAO Explorer
and Drift Explorer.

Acknowledgement
Heavy investments of time, effort, expertise, and funds continue to be made to produce, collect, quality control, interpret, and archive ionosonde data. It is therefore important that the data suppliers and Lowell GIRO Data Center (LGDC) are appropriately acknowledged in scientific publications that include analysis of data obtained from LGDC servers. Please read Rules of the Road https://giro.uml.edu/didbase/RulesOfTheRoad.html for license information and refer to Acknowledgements List https://giro.uml.edu/didbase/acknowledgements.htm to use GIRO data per license requirements.
Contacts
RolePersonStartDateStopDateNote
1.PrincipalInvestigatorspase://SMWG/Person/Bodo.W.Reinisch
2.TechnicalContactspase://SMWG/Person/Ivan.A.Galkin
3.MetadataContactspase://SMWG/Person/Leonard.N.Garcia
InformationURL
Name
GIRO (Global Ionospheric Radio Observatory) Home Page.
URL
https://giro.uml.edu/
Description

Access to real-time data and software tools

InformationURL
Name
Global Ionospheric Radio Observatory (GIRO) Article
URL
https://link.springer.com/article/10.5047%2Feps.2011.03.001
Description

Detailed information about the Global Ionospheric Radio Observatory.

InformationURL
Name
DIDBase Fast Station List
URL
https://giro.uml.edu/ionoweb
Description

A listing of observatories, locations and date ranges of available data from each. Links provide access to ionograms.

Location
ObservatoryRegion
Earth.Surface
OperatingSpan
StartDate
1987-01-01 00:00:00Z
Note
Different GIRO locations have come online on different dates. See the individual location descriptions for more information.