Imaging of the equatorial ionospheric anomaly over South America-A simulation study of total electron content

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 1819-1833

  Zapfe, B D ^a   Materassi, M ^b   Mitchell, C N ^a   Spalla, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c IFAC CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Equatorial ionosphere; Remote sensing; Remote sensing and electromagnetic processes; Tomography and imaging

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; REMOTE SENSING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EQUATORIAL IONOSPHERE; INTERNATIONAL REFERENCE IONOSPHERE MODEL; MULTI-INSTRUMENT DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM (MIDAS); TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT (TEC);

IONOSPHERE;

ALGORITHM; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; ELECTRON DENSITY; IMAGING METHOD; IONOSPHERE; TOMOGRAPHY;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33750369687     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2006.05.025     Document Type: Article

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