Automatic Processing of Digital Ionograms and Full Wave Solutions for the Profile Inversion Problem.
Abstract
Methods for the automatic scaling of Digisonde ionograms are described. Making use of the available ionogram information, i.e., signal amplitude, polarization and incidence angle, the bottomside ionogram scaling algorithm extracts the ordinary echo trace with good accuracy even under very disturbed ionospheric conditions. The automated parameters for some 600 ionograms from Goose Bay, Labrador, were compared with the manually scaled values. For 82% of all ionograms foF2 was scaled within 0.5 MHz, and for 93% within 1 MHz in spite of the frequent occurrence of heavy spread F. New full wave methods for the profile inversion are explored in the second part of this report. Special profiles are investigated for which the full-wave equations can be solved exactly. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADA115820
Entities
People
- B. W. Reinisch
- H. E. Moses
- J. S. Tang