Optical Mesosphere Thermosphere
Imagers (OMTIs)

Solar-Terrestrial Enviroment Laboratory, Nagoya University


      The Optical Mesosphere Thermosphere Imagers (OMTI) were developed at the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, in order to investigate the dynamics of the upper atmosphere through nocturnal airglow emissions. In this homepage, plots of intensity, two-dimensional images, rotational temperatures, and Doppler wind velocities of nocturnal airglow obtained at several ground stations are available.

      PLEASE CONTACT the Principal Investigators, K. Shiokawa or T. Ogawa before using these data for any publications and/or presentations.

Please note that the data are just for browsing purpose and are not fully calibrated.

  1. Important Notes
  2. Station Locations, Observed Airglow Lines, and Time Resolutions
  3. Figure Captions
  4. Instrumental Papers
  5. Picture of the Instruments
  6. Sky Condition (1-hour value)
Data Plots

Current Site Map (Details are in item 2 above)

Contact Address

Dr. Kazuo Shiokawa and Professor Tadahiko Ogawa
Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University
3-13, Honohara, Toyokawa, Aichi 442-8507, Japan
tel: 81-533-89-5168 fax: 81-533-89-1539
e-mail: shiokawa [AT] stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp or ogawa [AT] stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp


Acknowledgements

The OMTIs have been developed in collaboration with T. Kotoh, Y. Katoh, M. Satoh, and M. K. Ejiri of the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, T. Nakamura and T. Tsuda of the Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere (RASC), Kyoto University, and R. H. Wiens of the Center for Research in Earth and Space Science, York University.

We are grateful to Drs. M. Ishii, H. Fukunishi, H. Nakajima, S. Okano, Y. Takahashi, and M. Taguchi for their helpful comments and suggestions during the development of OMTIs. Mr. R. Maekawa is greatly acknowledged for his skillful help to construct the automatic control software for the cameras. The all-sky cameras and the photometers were calibrated using facilities at the National Institute of Polar Research, Japan. This Web browser for OMTI plots have been developed in cooperation with the Geospace Research Center of the STE Laboratory, Nagoya University. 


Collaborators at each station
Shigaraki: Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), 
           Kyoto University, Japan
Darwin: IPS Radio and Space Services, Australia
Kototabang: Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH), 
            Kyoto University, Japan, and National Institute of 
            Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN), Indonesia
Resolute: SRI International, USA, and University of Calgary, Canada
Athabasca: Athabasca University and University of Calgary, Canada
Yonaguni: Electronic Navigation Research Institute (ENRI), Japan, and 
          National Insitute of Information and Communications Technology
          (NiCT), Japan

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