Auroral Campaign in Canada

This homepage is to show status and browsing data obtained by the auroral campaign measurements in Canada.

January 2-15, 2008 Campaign

-- station: Gillam (56.4N, 265.4E); Fort Smith (60.0N, 248.1E)
-- instrument1: panchromatic image-intensified all-sky camera (30-Hz sample) with 180-degree field of view (FOV)
-- instrument2: panchromatic CCD camera (~1-s sample) with ~50-degree FOV

February 16-27, 2009 Campaign

-- station: Gillam (56.4N, 265.4E); Fort Smith (60.0N, 248.1E)
-- instrument1: panchromatic image-intensified all-sky camera (30-Hz sample) with 180-degree field of view (FOV)
-- instrument2: panchromatic CCD camera (1-30Hz sample) with 30-50-degree FOV


PLEASE CONTACT K. Shiokawa for the 30Hz-sampled digital data.

(Contact Dr. Marc Lessard for induction coil digital data)

Contact Address

Kazuo Shiokawa and Akimasa Ieda

Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University
3-13, Honohara, Toyokawa, Aichi 442-8507, Japan
tel: +81-533-89-5166 fax: +81-533-89-1539

Acknowledgements

The observatories at Gillam and Fort Smith are Canadian Geospace Monitoring (CGSM) program core sites operated by the Canadian Space Agency. The campaign was carried out in collaboration with the Canadian Space Agency, and with the support from the University of Calgary NORSTAR team, and the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University. This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (19403010) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan.