Phase-difference radiotomography of the ionosphere
Abstract
A method is developed for the radiotomography of large plasma irregularities in the ionosphere on the scale of hundreds of kilometers. The proposed phase-difference tomography method is based on measurements of the Doppler frequency of a radio wave from a moving satellite. Numerical simulation and experimental results are presented on the radiotomography of global structures with a sounding source on the satellite and three receivers on the Murmansk-Moscow line, situated in the flight plane of a navigation satellite.
- Publication:
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Geomagnetism and Aeronomy
- Pub Date:
- February 1992
- Bibcode:
- 1992Ge&Ae..32..104A
- Keywords:
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- Ionospheric Propagation;
- Ionospheric Sounding;
- Phase Shift;
- Space Plasmas;
- Tomography;
- Doppler Effect;
- Ionospheric Electron Density;
- Radio Waves;
- Satellite Observation