Far Ultraviolet Images of the Nightime Ionosphere

Abstract

The Naval Research Laboratory's Far Ultraviolet Cameras Experiment is part of an ongoing project to develop a means for real time space based monitoring of the upper atmosphere. The purpose of this paper is to develop a method by which useable data can be extracted from the images obtained from the cameras. The required output is an intensity profile of the light in the band of the camera as a function of observation zenith angle. From this data future analysis can be done to determine the spatial distribution and density of the upper atmosphere. The long term application of this project is to develop a method for using space based imaging of the ionosphere to provide real time radio frequency propagation analysis. Far ultraviolet, Ultraviolet, Ionosphere, Atmosphere, Space based imaging.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 23, 1993
Accession Number
ADA275083

Entities

People

  • Thomas P. Hekman

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cameras
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Detection
  • Electron Density
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Electrons
  • Emission
  • Equations
  • Geographic Regions
  • Image Processing
  • Ionization
  • Military Research
  • Radiation
  • Radio Frequency
  • Space Based
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation

Technology Areas

  • Space