Hello,
As some of you may know, the space weather prediction center is predicting a "strong" (G3 classification) solar storm for this weekend (maximum occurring on Saturday the 13th). I am curious how much concern people have about these events in terms of affecting their GNSS operations.
With this in mind, my question is, if you had a project ongoing, would you:
1) consider delaying/postponing work on this day to prevent any potential problems in your GNSS processing.
2) survey anyway, take further precautions (more QC/Analysis) and if you discover some strange results just re-survey once the storm has dissipated.
3) watch the space weather indices and monitor the storm (boy you are a keener) and make the decision as conditions change
4) take the day off and enjoy a cold beer 🙂
Thanks for your replies!
I'm facing this now.
If I had an option I'd avoid the coming job until more favorable time.
I've a job on Monday (your Sunday) and am cautious about going.
I have a weather break forecast so will make the trip.
I'll certainly make checks and use my total station to hopefully add further checks and confidence.
A couple of years ago I had a job where I found some odd errors and later found there was a similar solar event.
I couldn't rule out the issues were down to the sun playing about.
Mind you I won't really mind if I have to go back.
Anyone that knows the Cradle Mt. area of Tasmania would hardly knock back a return trip.
Yes but.
I am not running the GPS until Monday with the exception of the unit on the roof which is always running. I want to see what the data looks like during this event.
I pay attention to space weather, but unfortunately my larger projects involve campaign-style observations that have to be scheduled weeks in advance. The threat level would have too be extremely high to justify rescheduling, so we just go and hope we get enough good data to meet the project specifications.
cool...let us know if you see anything interesting!
