Ionosphere Monitoring and Prediction Center

Kurzfassung

Given the ever-increasing demands for accuracy, reliability, availability and safety of modern radio systems in telecommunications and navigation, the need to establish ionospheric information and data services in connection with space weather services is beyond question. The Department for Space Weather Impacts of the newly founded DLR Institute for Solar-Terrestrial Physics investigates the Space Weather influence on crucial systems and services such as GNSS or HF communication as well as on ground and space based infrastructures such as power grids or satellites. This includes the operation of the pre-operational system IMPC (Ionosphere Monitoring and Prediction Center) to validate space weather data and products and to support scientific, industrial and governmental institutions. The IMPC with its special combination of scientific know-how and data management contributes to awareness and mitigation of the ionospheric impacts on our technology. We will present the IMPC service and selected products. We also give an outlook on outreach activities and our recent participation in various networks that define the need for further developments within the IMPC.