Advantage of GLONASS Using for Research of the High Latitude Ionosphere
Abstract
Control of the processes in the high latitude ionosphere by using of satellites is the powerful method. The high latitude ionosphere is very interesting region and its research is of great interest. The use of satellites to study the ionosphere made it possible to carry out observations continuously and at any point. The operating satellites of the global navigation system GPS have an inclination of 55 degrees, and the GLONASS ones have 64.8 degrees. It was shown that the higher inclination of the GLONASS satellites gives an advantage to this system for the study of processes in the high latitude ionosphere. On the example of research of processes in the high latitude ionosphere during its modification with powerful high-frequency radio waves by the heating facility EISCAT/Heating (Tromso, Norway), it was shown that variations in the total electron content obtained from GLONASS satellite signals were in many ways similar to the variations in the total electron content obtained by the incoherent radar near the Heating facility.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFM.G21C0752C
- Keywords:
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- 1223 Ocean/Earth/atmosphere/hydrosphere/cryosphere interactions;
- GEODESY AND GRAVITY;
- 1229 Reference systems;
- GEODESY AND GRAVITY;
- 1241 Satellite geodesy: technical issues;
- GEODESY AND GRAVITY;
- 1243 Space geodetic surveys;
- GEODESY AND GRAVITY