DMSPData.jl

Access and process Defense Meteorological Satellite Program data from the Madrigal database.

Installation: at the Julia REPL, run using Pkg; Pkg.add("DMSPData")

Documentation:

Features and Roadmap

• Data Access
  • SSJ/4 - Special Sensor J/4 - Precipitating Ion and Electron (30ev - 30 KeV) Monitor (Boston College, ISR)
  • SSIE, SSIES, SSIES2, SSIES3 - Thermal Plasma Monitor (Boston College, ISR & Univ of Texas at Dallas)
    • Madrigal S1 (scalar 1 second cadence) : electron density and ion velocity
    • Madrigal S4 (scalar 4 second cadence) : ion and electron temperature, electric potential, composition
  • SSM - Vector Fluxgate Magnetometer (Boston College, ISR & NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center)
  • SSULI - Limb Scanning Ultraviolet Imager/Spectrometer ( Naval Research Lab., Thermospheric and Ionospheric Physics )
  • SSUSI - Nadir Scanning Ultraviolet Imager/Spectrometer & Photometer (Johns Hopkins Univ, Applied Physics Lab.)
  • SSJSTAR - Penetrating Particle ( > 1 MeV ) Monitor (USAF Research Lab, Space Vehicle Dir.) - a predecessor to the Compact Environmental Anomaly (CEASE) instrument

Links and References

• DMSP Space Weather Data Survey
  • General Characteristics
• Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
  • Data Access
• Fact Sheets - United States Space Force

Elsewhere

• GeospaceLAB: A Python-based framework for data access, analysis, and visualization; it supports DMSP SSJ, SSIES, SSUSI, SSM data access.
• DMSP SSJ Boundaries - ocbpy
• lkilcommons/ssj_auroral_boundary: Identify boundaries of the aurora with Defense Meteorology Satellite Program (DMSP) electron precipitation