The 2nd URSI Atlantic Radio Science Conference held on Gran Canaria, Spain

The 2nd URSI Atlantic Radio Science Conference held on Gran Canaria, Spain

The International Union of Radio Science (Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale – URSI), the world’s major radio science scientific community, organised its 2nd URSI Atlantic Radio Science Conference (URSI AT-RASC) in ExpoMeloneras Convention Centre, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain on 28th May, 2018 – 1st June, 2018. Renowned experts in radio science across the world gathered on Gran Canaria to present their recent scientific results in radio science in the programme that ran in a continuous series of parallel sessions. Split into ten Scientific Commissions, the conference addressed the subjects of electromagnetic metrology (Commission A), fields and waves (Commission B), radio communications and signal processing systems (Commission C), electronics and photonics (Commission D), electromagnetic environment and interference (Commission E), wave propagation and remote sensing (Commission F), ionospheric radio and propagation (Commission G), waves in plasmas (Commission H), radio astronomy (Commission J), and electromagnetics in biology and medicine (Commission K). Commissions were chaired by eminent scientists such as Professor Patricia Doherty, of Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA and the former US ION President, and Professor Iwona Stanislawska of Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, who both chaired the Commission G scientific activities.

The Royal Institute of Navigation was represented at the 2nd URSI AT-RASC through participation of Ms Mia Filić, MSc Comp Sci & Math MRIN, a satellite navigation, statistical and machine learning, and space weather specialist, and the Annual Baška GNSS Conference Programme Chair and the Conference Proceedings Editor, in the Scientific Commission G sessions. The audience heard of development of the machine learning-based forecasting model of the space weather-induced GNSS positioning errors, during the presentation of Ms Filić’s paper On development of the forecasting model of GNSS positioning performance degradation due to space weather and ionospheric conditions. Ms Filić received the Young Scientist Award for her scientific contribution.

URSI made all the scientific papers presented at the 2nd AT-RASC publicly available at: http://www.atrasc.com/content/stick/code.html.