ScintPi: A low-cost, easy-to-build GPS ionospheric scintillation monitor for DASI studies of space weather, education, and citizen science initiatives

These data sets contain ionospheric scintillation (GPS L1) observations (S4 indices) collected by a ScintPi prototype during 2018 at a low magnetic latitude station (Presidente Prudente). ScintPi is a low-cost, easy-to-build GPS ionospheric scintillation monitor for DASI studies of space weather, education, and citizen science initiatives.

The file named "ScintPi_PPR_S4_2018.mat" contains S4 values (s4mat) for 2018 as a function of universal time (utmat), day-of-year (doymat), GPS satellite identifier number (prnmat), GPS satellite elevation (elmat) and azimuth (azmat) angles.

The file named "ScintPi_PPR_20180211.mat" contains example raw (10 Hz) measurements made by ScintPi on February 11, 2018. The file contains values of receiver's altitude, latitude and longitude (variables alt,lat, and lon), GPS satellite azimuth and elevation (variables el and az), GPS identifier number (prn), signal-to-noise ratio (snr), and day-of-year (doy).