The new ionospheric station of San Miguel de Tucumán

At the end of August 2007 an Advanced Ionospheric Sounder (AIS), built at the Istituto Nazionale
di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Rome, Italy, was installed at San Miguel de Tucumán,
Argentina (geographical coordinates: 26.9 S, 294.6 E; magnetic coordinates: 15.5 S, 3.8 E),
particularly interesting for its location, near the southern peak of the equatorial anomaly.
AIS-INGV is a digital low-power pulse-compressed ionosonde. In order to reduce the transmitted
power, weight, size, power consumption, and to have an excellent reliability, advanced HF-radar
techniques were employed. The ionosonde is also equipped with Autoscala, a software able to
perform an automatic scaling of the ionogram.

Zuccheretti E., G. Tutone, U. Sciacca, C. Bianchi and B. J. Arokiasamy (2003): The new AISINGV
digital ionosonde, Annals of Geophysics, 46 (4), 647-659.

Pezzopane M. and C. Scotto (2007): The Automatic Scaling of Critical Frequency foF2 and
MUF(3000)F2: a comparison between Autoscala and ARTIST 4.5 on Rome data, Radio Science,
42, RS4003, doi:10.1029/2006RS003581.