Sponsors: NASA, NSF, EOARD, ICTP, AFRL, AFOSR, ONR, CAWSES

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Sponsors NASA, NSF, EOARD, ICTP, AFRL, AFOSR,
ONR, CAWSES COSPAR
IHY-Africa Meeting Report Sunanda Basu, Boston
University
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The Ghion Hotel meeting location lodging for
all Participants
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International Organizing Committee Christine Amory-Mazaudier, France David Anderson, USA Sunanda Basu, USA (Co-chair) David Byers, USA Mihail Codrescu, USA Patricia Doherty, USA Tim Fuller-Rowell, USA (Co-chair) Keith Groves, USA Abebe Kebede, USA Ian Mann, Canada Karen Fay OLoughlin, USA Monique Petit-Didier, France Babatunde Rabiu, Nigeria Robert Robinson, USA Endawoke Yizengaw, USA Local Organizing Committee Gizaw Mengistu, Ethiopia Baylie Damtie, Ethiopia

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20 African Countries








63 African Scientists
40 Scientists From other Countries



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Informal Sub-group of Participants Photo by
Santimay Basu
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Note Large Gap in Coverage at African Equatorial
Longitudes
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SCINDA an Existing Network for Scintillation
Measurements
Similar large gap at African Longitudes
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IHY-UN Basic Space Sciences Initiative

• Major thrust of IHY-UNBSSI Program is deployment
  of instrument arrays in developing countries
• Developed nations provide instruments
• Developing countries provide man-power
  maintenance
• This has led to deployment of radio telescopes,
  GPS receivers, magnetometers, etc. in many
  countries
• In Africa, several arrays are in deployment stage
  primarily at Universities
• In Africa, another basic need is the cyber
  infra-structure necessary for acquiring and
  real-time dissemination of the data obtained from
  such instruments

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Planned Enhancement of GPS Network in Sub-Saharan
Africa
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-UCLA
-Japan
France
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Important Events Prior to and During IHY-Africa
Meeting

• GIFT Workshop, Nov 10 All Day (P. Reiff brought
  tent Planetarium)
• SCINDA 2007 Workshop, Nov 11, All Day
• Nov 11 Evening Ice Breaker
• Opening of IHY-Africa Workshop, Nov 12 by Dr. H.
  E. Sintayehu, Minister of Education,
  Ethiopia
• African Cyber Infrastructure Discussion, Nov 12
  - Early Evening
• SIDs Workshop, Nov 12 Late Evening
• Poster Session Buffet, Nov 13 Evening
• Tour of Addis Ababa, Nov 14 Afternoon
  Highlight Visit to Lucy
• NSF-IHY Day, Nov 15 3 Breakout Groups on
  GPS/TEC, Magnetometers/Electrodynamics/Plasmaspher
  e and Education/Outreach
• Nov 12- 15 At least 20 Presentations on Space
  and Ground Programs of Relevance to Africa and
  Updates on Future Satellite Missions and Ground
  Arrays
• Evening of Nov 15 - Banquet and Folk Dances
• Nov 16 Panel Discussion and Breakout Group
  Reports, Recommendations

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Tutorials at the IHY-Africa 2007
Ionospheric Scintillations (by S.
Basu), Magnetic Storm Effects on Communication
and Navigation Systems in the Equatorial Region
(by Su. Basu) , Low Latitude Ionospheric Sensor
Network (LISN)- The First Distributed Observatory
in South America (by C. Valladares), Ionospheric
Model Adaptation by Means of Experimental
Data (by S. Radicella) Ionospheric
Electrodynamics at Low and Middle Latitudes (by
R. Heelis), The Plasmasphere (by M. Moldwin)
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The IHY-Africa Resolution on Cyber-infrastructure

• The Preamble
• We, the 63 African scientists, representing 20
  African countries, and 40 scientists from other
  nations participating in the International
  Heliophysical Year Workshop in Addis Ababa, 12-16
  November 2007,
• Recognizing that modern information and
  communications technologies have revolutionized
  the conduct of research, education, and training
  in science and technology, as well as elsewhere,
  by providing rapid and effective means to
• - communicate among people,
• - discover, access, and share data and
  information,
• - participate in international, regional, and
  national scientific and educational
  efforts,
• - transmit observational data efficiently,
• Recommend that high priority be given to
  improving the cyber-infrastructure for
  Universities and other national science and
  technology institutions in Africa as a
  costeffective and essential means of achieving
  national Millennium Development Goals.

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The IHY-Africa Resolution on Science
Recognizing that -Space science and space
weather are no longer the concern only of the
developed nations of the world -Space science and
technology are critical for Africa to deliver
economic environmental, and social benefits to
communities, such as wireless communications,
resource management, remote sensing, and an
educated population -Reduce dependency -Consisten
t with UN BSS Initiative objectives -African
scientists have significant but underutilized
capability in space science and space weather
research Noting that -The location of Africa
uniquely fills a critical gap in the observations
required to understand the global space
environment -Space science research opportunities
in Africa have been limited We strongly
Recommend that vigorous efforts should be made
to -Expand and strengthen the space science
programs in universities and research
institutions -Increase funding for experimental
facilities -Strengthen and take advantage of
international collaborations
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Overview of Proposed Instrument Arrays
Overview of Instrument Arrays
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Future Plans for Meetings Schoolsfor African
Scientists

• IHY/ WHI Campaign March 20-April 16, 2008
• Coincides with Ulysses polar pass
• SCINDA Workshop, 2008 in South Africa
• Africa Array Meeting, Johannesburg, S. Africa,
  June 08 (Seismic Array can be used for Sp.
  Sci.)
• State Dept. involvement through Comm. for the
  Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS)
• CAWSES ISAR School in Taiwan, Fall 2008
• Training in GPS-based techniques
• Int. Partnership Between BC ICTP, Trieste
• IHY-Africa, 2009 Committee in the works

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Proposal in ProgressInternational Partnership
for Sustainable Development in Navigation Science
and Technology in Africa
Purpose Organize a series of workshops for
African university professors, young scientists
and graduate students. Each workshop will be
comprised of classroom and hands-on training in
GPS hardware, technological applications and
scientific exploration using GPS Where
International Centre for Theoretical Physics,
Trieste, IT When 3 week workshops to be held 1
or 2 times each year in 2009, 2010 and 2011
Who Boston College and the International
Centre for Theoretical Physics will design and
manage the program. Lecturers will be invited
from the US, Europe and Africa.
Proposed PIs Patricia Doherty, Boston
College Sandro Radicella, ICTP
Prepared by P.Doherty 01/02/08
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International Partnership for Sustainable
Development in Navigation Science and Technology
in Africa

• To provide a knowledgeable GPS workforce in
  Africa
• To encourage the use of GPS for societal and
  economic development and environmental protection
• To establish Space Weather studies in Africa
• To initiate international scientific
  collaborations

Disaster Relief
Water Navigation
Land Navigation
Air Navigation
Scientific Exploration
Wildlife Conservation
Precision Farming
Prepared by P.Doherty 01/02/08
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TIMED/GUVI Image at 135.6 nm over Africa
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Whole Heliosphere Interval Campaign March 20 to
April 16, 2008

• Targeted Observing Campaign during Solar
  Carrington Rotation 2048 to study
• Day-to-day variability of total electron content
  (TEC) and scintillations
• Day-to-day variability of F-region vertical
  drifts at the magnetic equator
• Development and decay of the Equatorial Anomaly
• Measurements will be very important for
  determination of longitudinal variability, the
  planning of regional space-based navigation
  systems and as inputs to ionospheric space
  weather models