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<Instrument xmlns="https://metadata.pithia.eu/schemas/2.2" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="https://metadata.pithia.eu/schemas/2.2 https://metadata.pithia.eu/schemas/2.2/pithia.xsd">
<identifier>
<PITHIA_Identifier>
<localID>Instrument_Ionosonde_Parus-A</localID>
<namespace>ras</namespace>
<version>1</version>
<creationDate>2022-10-25T23:00:00Z</creationDate>
<lastModificationDate>2024-12-18T13:09:00Z</lastModificationDate>
</PITHIA_Identifier>
</identifier>
<name>Ionosonde: Parus-A</name>
<description>Parus-A ionosonde was developed in 2010 by HF radar engineering team at IZMIRAN, Russian Academy of Sciences, with the primary objective of
building a robust instrument for monitoring the ionosphere in an operational network maintained by Roshydromet.</description>
<type xlink:href="https://metadata.pithia.eu/ontology/2.2/instrumentType/VerticalSounder"/>
<operationalMode>
<InstrumentOperationalMode>
<id>ionogram</id>
<name>Scanning Ionogram</name>
<description>
The system steps through frequencies according to the selected program parameters.
</description>
</InstrumentOperationalMode>
</operationalMode>
</Instrument>