Ionospheric Propagation Studies during the Precision Targeting Experiments.
Abstract
In support of the Rome Air Development Center's Precision Targeting Experiment during March and April 1985, the University of Lowell Center for Atmospheric Research installed and operated a Digisonde 256 vertical incidence ionospheric sounder at Erie, Colorado. The sounder continuously measured the local ionospheric layer parameters, including ionospheric tilts, during two five-hour flights of the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory's aircraft. The data has been scaled and analyzed to provide a description of the ionosphere as it affected the HF radio waves transmitted from the SRI-International's over-the-horizon radar facility in Los Banos, California. Comparison is made between the results simulated using ionospheric models, the backscatter ionograms and the oblique ionogram data over the same propagation path. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1986
- Accession Number
- ADA172316
Entities
People
- B. W. Reinisch
- Claude G. Dozois
- Gary S. Sales
- Klaus Bibl