T-FORS First Innovation Day

The T-FORS First Innovation Day was organised on Thursday 23 November 2023 at 17:00-20:00 CET. It took place as a specific event during the European Space Weather Week 2023 (ESWW 2023), in the “SPOT” room. Thirty participants - T-FORS members, scientists and stakeholders - attended the meeting, which was hybrid.

The event aimed at presenting the T-FORS project and discussing with stakeholders about their needs and priorities in TID forecasting services. In addition, presentations of end-users needs were also given. The event was completed by a round table, where stakeholders' needs were discussed and experiences were shared.

During the round table, feedback from stakeholders of the domain was very positive and the T-FORS project appeared relevant, covering the expectations of end-users. It appeared particularly interesting for different electromagnetic systems such as all systems using satellite positioning (GNSS with or without integrity information produced by SBAS systems), producing forecasts in the form of alert levels to TIDs. The interest of T-FORS outputs for electromagnetic systems in HF band (typically communications links or over the horizon sky wave radars), were also discussed. The impact of TIDS on low frequency SAR systems onboard satellite and very low frequency astronomical observations was also discussed, with a need more focused on a posterior classification of observations.

In conclusion, the First Innovation Day has been considered as very successful by the community and appointment is made for the end of the project where the achievements will be very expected by the community.

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