Utilization of sky-wave backscatter sounders for real-time monitoring of ionospheric structure over extended geographic regions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 885-888

  Fridman, Sergey V ^a   Berkey, Frank T ^b,c  

^a MISSION RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; GRAPHIC METHODS; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; DATA ACQUISITION; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

CHESAPEAKE; CONSTANT ALTITUDE; GEOGRAPHICAL AREA; INVERSION TECHNIQUES; IONOSPHERIC STRUCTURES; PLASMA FREQUENCIES; QUANTITATIVE EXTRACTION; REAL TIME MONITORING;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

BACKSCATTER IONOGRAMS (BI); EXTENDED GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS; LEADING EDGE INVERSION METHOD; OVER THE HORIZON RADAR (OTHR); PLASMA FREQUENCY MAPS; QUASI VERTICAL INCIDENCE (QVI) IONOGRAMS;

EID: 0032025289     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00428     Document Type: Article

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