ICEBEAR Data Policy
Access
Access and use of data produced by the ICEBEAR radar is provided in accordance with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Geospace Observatory (GO) Canada Data Policy (GO Canada Webpage, GO Canada Data Policy pdf). Users are required to acknowledge the use of ICEBEAR data in any publications, presentations, or other formats. Users are also strongly encouraged to provide copies of any publications using ICEBEAR observations, as well as make available to the community tools and/or value-added data products based on the CSA GO Canada ICEBEAR data.
All ICEBEAR data is open and freely available in the easy to read HDF5 file format; however, due to the extremely large data volume, the raw and Level 0 data (~1 Tb per day) is only available upon request.
ICEBEAR data and plots are available via a web interface: Data Access
Available ICEBEAR Data consists of:
| Level 0 data: | Raw antenna voltages |
| Level 1 data: | Cross-correlations between receiver antennas |
Plotted ICEBEAR data consists of:
| Summary: | Doppler velocity and SNR measured over a day period across all ranges |
| Range-Doppler SNR: | 1 and 5 second resolution images and movies |
| Field-of-View SNR: | 1 and 5 second resolution images and movies |
| Field-of-View Doppler: | 1 and 5 second resolution images and movies |
Contact
Users can contact glenn.hussey@usask.ca to discuss generation of other data products from ICEBEAR. It is encouraged that users inform the ICEBEAR PI of usage of the ICEBEAR data sets for record keeping and justification for continued operation of the radar.
Referencing
The references for citing ICEBEAR are:
- A. Lozinsky, G. Hussey, K.McWilliams, D. Huyghebaert, D. Galeschuk, ICEBEAR-3D: A Low Elevation Imaging Radar Using a Non-Uniform Coplanar Receiver Array for E Region Observations, Radio Science, 10.1029/2021RS007358, 57, 3, (2022).
- D. Huyghebaert, G. Hussey, J. Vierinen, K. McWilliams, J.-P. St-Maurice, ICEBEAR: An All-Digital Bistatic Coded Continuous-Wave Radar for Studies of the E Region of the Ionosphere, Radio Science, 10.1029/2018RS006747, 54, 4, (2019).
Acknowledging
Acknowledging the use of ICEBEAR should follow:
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The authors acknowledge the use of data products/resources generated from the ICEBEAR radar operated by G.C. Hussey (ICEBEAR PI) and the University of Saskatchewan, and supported through the Geospace Observatory (GO) Canada initiative of the Canadian Space Agency, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund, the Province of Saskatchewan, the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada.
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