Tomography of the ionosphere: Four-dimensional simulations

Radio Science

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 109-128

  Howe, Bruce M ^a   Runciman, Kay ^a   Secan, James A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MARKOV PROCESSES; ORBITS; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TOMOGRAPHY; TRACKING (POSITION); WHITE NOISE; ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; KALMAN FILTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIO TRANSMISSION;

CORRELATION LENGTH SCALE; COVARIANCE STRUCTURES; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; FIRST ORDER MARKOV PROCESS; FIXED COORDINATE SYSTEMS; LOW EARTH ORBITING SATELLITES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRONS; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT;

STOCHASTIC MODELS; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS (EOFS); IONOSPHERIC PERTURBATIONS; IONOSPHERIC TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031702224     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97RS02615     Document Type: Article

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