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The purpose of the Observatory Development component of the IHY is to develop activities and facilitate partnerships that stimulate Space and Earth Science activities throughout the world, particularly in developing or undersampled regions, such as the establishment of ground-based instrument arrays and research programs. This includes the deployment of small, inexpensive instruments such as magnetometers, radio antennas, GPS receivers, all-sky cameras, etc. around the world to provide global measurements of ionospheric and heliospheric phenomena. This joint program, a collaboration between the IHY and the United Nations Basic Space Science (UNBSS) Initiative, centers around a series of annual workshops hosted in varying international locations.
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(2009). IHY/UNBSS Observatory Development Program. In: Thompson, B.J., Gopalswamy, N., Davila, J.M., Haubold, H.J. (eds) Putting the “I” in IHY. Studies in Space Policy. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-99180-0_4
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