Ionosphere Detection
The Sphere Very-Low-Frequency (VLF) Antenna System develops a globally deployable, high-performance VLF antenna system to monitor and analyze signals from meteors, rocket launches, lightning, and weather-related events.
Overview
The Sphere Very-Low-Frequency (VLF) Antenna System is designed to create a robust, reliable, and high-performance VLF-embedded antenna system capable of global deployment. Its primary objective is to monitor meteors, rocket launches, lightning, and other weather activities. The project focuses on processing and analyzing VLF signals, correlating signal signatures with different events, and exploring the underlying principles governing these phenomena.
Goals
- Develop an automatic model for fine-tuning signal processing parameters for different event signatures
- Correlate VLF signal signatures with distinct physical phenomena
- Optimize real-time spectrogram generation and display
Technical Highlights
- Real-time FFT spectrogram based on a leading signal processing algorithm
- Field-deployed to capture the Perseids meteor shower in 2024
- System designed for global deployment