IRI-Plas optimization based ionospheric tomography

Author

Cilibas, Onur ; Sezen, Umut ; Arikan, F. ; Gulyaeva, Tamara

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Hacettepe Univ., Ankara, Turkey

fYear

2013

fDate

9-12 July 2013

Firstpage

1645

Lastpage

1649

Abstract

Ionosphere plays an important role in High Frequency (HF) communications. In this paper, Global Ionospheric Maps (GIM) of Total Electron Content (TEC), maximum ionization height (hmF2) and critical frequency (foF2) of F2-layer are presented. These maps are obtained from the Nonlinear Least Squares (NLSQ) optimization of the International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) model extended to the Plasmasphere (IRI-Plas) using the one-hour resolution GIM-TEC (UHR) maps provided by the Polytechnical University of Catalonia (UPC) as the reference input.

Keywords

ionosphere; least squares approximations; magnetosphere; optimisation; tomography; F2-layer; IRI-Plas optimization; International Reference Ionosphere model; NLSQ; Polytechnical University of Catalonia; critical frequency; global ionospheric maps; high frequency communications; ionospheric tomography; maximum ionization height; nonlinear least squares optimization; one-hour resolution GIM-TEC; plasmasphere; total electron content; Educational institutions; Estimation; Global Positioning System; Ionosphere; Optimization; Storms; Vectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Fusion (FUSION), 2013 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

978-605-86311-1-3

Type

conf

Filename

6641198