About
ICTP’s Aeronomy and Radiopropagation Laboratory (ARPL) is divided into two units: Aeronomy Research and Application, and Wireless Research and Development.
Aeronomy
Aeronomy is an interdisciplinary field of science that deals with the physics and chemistry of the upper atmosphere of the Earth and other planets under the effects of magnetic fields and electromagnetic and corpuscular radiation from space.
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- Study and develop 3D and time dependent global electron density models in the ionosphere.
- Ionospheric data ingestion into electron density models to produce 3D specification of the ionosphere.
- GNSS radio-occultation data inversion to obtain electron density profiles in the ionosphere.
- Analysis of ionospheric data of different sources and model validation.
Collaboration
The ICTP has signed in 2009 a MoU with Boston College’s Institute of Scientific Research (ISR) of the United States of America to promote, through ARPL, activities related to satellite navigation science and technology in Africa. Towards this objective training activities are being organized and carried out in Trieste and in Africa. A series of collaborations have started with research groups in African universities tending to the implementation of joint research activities in this field.
Other collaborations are active with Research Institutions of: Italy, Russia, Ukraine, Spain, Argentina, Cuba, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Cotè d’Ivoire, Uganda, Zambia, Kenya and Rwanda.
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