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Find similar grantsAtmosphere as a Sensor (AtmoSense) is sponsored by DARPA. A program that aims to understand the fundamentals of energy propagation from the Earth's surface to the ionosphere to determine whether the atmosphere can be used as a sensor.
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AtmoSense: Atmosphere as a Sensor | DARPA Department of War organization. AtmoSense: Atmosphere As a Sensor AtmoSense: Atmosphere as a Sensor This graphic shows the modeling output of 3D multi-scale acoustic wave propagation resulting from a kilotons-equivalent-yield disturbance originating near the ground, such as from an earthquake or volcanic eruption.
Also depicted is an instrumentation detection method developed and tested as part of the AtmoSense program that uses ground-based receivers to measure the impact of explosion-generated acoustic waves on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals.
Source: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University The Atmosphere as a Sensor (AtmoSense) program is a fundamental science program that seeks to understand the propagation of mechanical and electromagnetic energy from the surface of the Earth through the Earth's ionosphere due to transient events such as meteorological sources, geophysical sources, prompt hazards, etc. For example, an event on the surface of the Earth, such as a volcanic eruption, will produce radially outward longitudinal mechanical perturbations on the atmosphere.
Those wave components travelling radially away from the center of the Earth will encounter decreasing air density with altitude thus reducing the amount of energy transferred to the atmosphere. This energy can propagate all the way to the bottomside of the ionosphere and has been detailed in the observational literature using various electromagnetic measuring techniques.
AtmoSense seeks to understand the evolution of this energy through the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere (before it reaches the ionosphere). Understanding the basic fundamentals of atmospheric energy propagation from transient events could inform new detection techniques and hazard forecasting for activities on the Earth's surface. View high-resolution image This program is now complete.
This content is available for reference purposes. This page is no longer maintained. Using the Earth's atmosphere as a global sensor shows promise The atmosphere as global sensor
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