Ionosphere Detection

Project 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.

Long-Term Goals

  • Develop an automatic model for fine-tuning signal processing parameters for different activities’ signatures
  • Correlated the VLF signal signatures with different physical activities
  • Optimized real-time spectrogram generation and display

Skills You Will Develop

  • RF Signal Processing and Analysis
  • Signal processing algorithm and workflow optimization
  • RF circuit Design
  • GUI design and software engineering
  • Data Management
  • Technical Writing
The Field capturing setup to capture the Perseids meteor shower in 2024 Real-time FFT monitoring
The innovative Real-time FFT spectrogram feature based on a leading signal processing algorithm

Quick Points

  • Learn skills in signal processing based on Fast Fourier Transformation(FFT) and Spectrom analysis.
  • The project also provides a massive software coding-based position, including data management, GUI design, and signal processing algorithm optimization.
  • The project will offer opportunities to learn about academic report and paper writing and the possibility of co-authoring journal and conference papers.