2016 Participants
Sorena Azaripour
This investigation looks into the effect of space weather on devices on Earth which use satellites signals. Time varying irregularities are generated as a consequence of solar storms in space which can cause a decrease in the percentage accuracy of results which mainly affect the phase and amplitude of satellite signals which pass through this solar storm. Many devices using global positioning system (GPS) signals require very precise results in order to function correctly therefore the space weather activity is measured and observed using data collected from EUREF (European network station). The raw data is then passed through different steps so that the final result is presented and analysed in the simplest format. The final hurdle in this study is to potentially minimise the phase and amplitude fluctuations which degrade the GNSS performance.
Funding source: Newcastle University
Supervisors: Dr Rajesh Tiwari and Dr Martin Johnston