2-D radio imaging of ionospheric electron density in the equatorial plane: Algorithms and results

Author

Landin, Kirk T. ; Kamalabadi, Farzad ; Bernhardt, Paul A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

8-11 Jan. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Local depletions in the equatorial ionospheric electron density, known as Spread-F events, have been an active area of scientific research in the last decades. These are of special interest to the research community because of their potentially deleterious impact on trans-ionospheric communication links and navigation systems. The impetus for focused modeling and experimentation is the ultimate goal of predicting these events and subsequent mitigation of their negative impacts.

Keywords

F-region; UHF radio propagation; VHF radio propagation; ionospheric disturbances; ionospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; ionospheric techniques; total electron content (atmosphere); 2D radio imaging; C/NOFS satellite; CERTO; Coherent Electromagnetic Radio Tomography; Communications/Navigation Outage Forecasting System satellite; Spread-F event predicting; TEC; UHF transmission; VHF transmission; equatorial ionospheric electron density; equatorial plane; local depletion; navigation systems; negative impact mitigation; total electron content; trans-ionospheric communication links; Geometry; Image reconstruction; Kirk field collapse effect; Laboratories; Satellite navigation systems; Tomography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM), 2014 United States National Committee of URSI National

Conference_Location

Boulder, CO

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3119-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/USNC-URSI-NRSM.2014.6928064

Filename

6928064