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Canopus — A ground-based instrument array for remote sensing the high latitude ionosphere during the ISTP/GGS program

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Proper interpretation ofin situ satellite data requires a knowledge of the global state of the magnetosphere-ionosphere system. CANOPUS is a large-scale array of remote sensing equipment monitoring the high latitude ionosphere from the north-central to the north-west portion of North America. The array comprises thirteen magnetometers and riometers four meridian scanning photometers, a digital allsky imager and an auroral radar linked by geostationary satellite to a central receiving node in Ottawa, where the data are archived and made available in near real time to participating scientists. This paper provides a technical description of the various instruments in the CANOPUS array, and contains a summary of the key parameters which will be provided to the Central Data Handling Facility (CDHF) located at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, for use by the ISTP/GGS community.

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  1. Canadian Network for Space Research and Department of Physics, University of Alberta, T6G 2J1, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    G. Rostoker & J. C. Samson

  2. Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada, K1A 0R6, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    F. Creutzberg, T. J. Hughes, D. R. McDiarmid, A. G. McNamara, A. Vallance Jones & D. D. Wallis

  3. Canadian Network for Space Research and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, T2N 1N4, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    L. L. Cogger

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Rostoker, G., Samson, J.C., Creutzberg, F. et al. Canopus — A ground-based instrument array for remote sensing the high latitude ionosphere during the ISTP/GGS program. Space Sci Rev 71, 743–760 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00751349

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