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This fall marked the start of the ESA S2P-S1-SW-21 SWIGPOD project which is devoted to extensively upgrade the GNSS Performance Indicators also taking advantage of the newly introduced ESA SWESNET products.
Space Weather has significant impact on wide range of GNSS-based modern technologies and also critical infrastructures, which is reported mostly during Solar Maxima and accordingly many GNSS user communities experienced the significant effects of the May 2024 events.
The Space Weather Service providers are thus asked to provide simple to understand, but accurate nowcasting or ideally forecasting services for various use cases and user communities. The range of interested GNSS users are invited to consultations of the planned service improvements which are ought to be well aimed to the users' perspective.
Therefore, all GNSS services' users are welcome to share their experience and challenges associated with degradation of GNSS services so that the products can be tailored also to their needs which will be also further configurable to specific ionospheric impact sensitivities.
The new SWIGPOD warning system will gather relevant real-time monitoring and partially forecasting services based on the use-case-driven synthesis of the SWESNET products. Although focused at GNSS performance indications, SWIGPOD will provide also indicator for radioastronomy end-users like LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) telescope for suitable observing conditions. LOFAR seeks to apply its very energy demanding processing to only suitable measurements, which are only the intervals disturbed by the ionosphere below the specific threshold, to be defined as SWIGPOD disturbance indicator for microwave radioastronomy.
