A General Purpose Ionospheric Ray Tracing Procedure

Abstract

A general purpose ionospheric ray tracing procedure is developed. The procedure is based on a numerical solution to the Haselgrove ray tracing equations and includes calculations of ionospherically induced Doppler shift. The procedure can handle a wide variety of ionospheric descriptions and includes the effect of the Earth's magnetic field. Ionospheric propagation, Ionospheric properties, Ray tracing, Computer applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA271058

Entities

People

  • C. J. Coleman

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • C4I
  • Counter IED
  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Differential Equations
  • Doppler Effect
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Elevation
  • Equations
  • Frequency
  • Grids
  • Ionosphere
  • Ionospheric Propagation
  • Latitude
  • Longitude
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Ray Tracing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.