Stereoscopic determination of all-sky altitude map of aurora using two ground-based Nikon DSLR cameras

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1543-1548

  Kataoka, R ^a,b   Miyoshi, Y ^c   Shigematsu, K ^c   Hampton, D ^d   Mori, Y ^e   Kubo, T ^f   Yamashita, A ^f   Tanaka, M ^b   Takahei, T ^g   Nakai, T ^c   Miyahara, H ^h   Shiokawa, K ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g Orihalcon Technologies Inc   (Japan)

^h MUSASHINO ART UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atmospheric composition and structure (airglow and aurora); Ionosphere (auroral ionosphere); Magnetospheric physics (energetic particles, precipitating)

Indexed keywords

AIRGLOW; AURORA; DIGITAL IMAGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOSPHERE; STEREO IMAGE;

EID: 84883897407     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-31-1543-2013     Document Type: Article

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