The tiny ionospheric photometer: An instrument for measuring ionospheric gradients for the COSMIC constellation

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 273-290

  Dymond, Kenneth F ^a   Nee, Jan Bai ^b   Thomas, Ronald J ^c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Data inversion; Electron density; GPS occultation; Ionosphere; Remote sensing; Ultraviolet radiometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034380331     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2000.11.1.273(COSMIC)     Document Type: Article

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