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The main objective of COST 296 is:

• Develop an increased knowledge of the effects imposed by the ionosphere on practical radio systems, and for the development and implementation of techniques to mitigate the deleterious effects of the ionosphere on such systems.
  

The other objectives are:

• Support and enhance the existing European facilities for historical and real-time ionospheric data collection accessible to all;

• Exchange information on methods and algorithms to mitigate the effects of ionospheric perturbations and variations on advanced terrestrial and space-based communication services by creating an effective computing infrastructure;

• Develop an integrated approach to ionospheric modeling; 

• Create the mechanism needed to ingest measured parameters into models, extend and develop suitable mitigation models and define the protocols needed to link models together; 

• Make applicable results available to the ITU-R and to promote the research aspects to funding agencies such as ESA, ESF and the EU; 

• Elaborate inputs for the preparation of the future European Space Programme (ESP);

• Strengthen the existing areas of expertise by stimulating closer cooperation between scientists and users; 

• Focus the scope of all the previous COST ionospheric related studies to the mitigation of ionospheric effects on specific radio systems.
  

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