Prism Validation and Applications

Abstract

This report describes PRISM related work performed in two broad areas: Validation and Applications. The Validation effort involved (1) validating the PRISM topside profile shape using Millstone Hill Incoherent Scatter Radar data, (2) participating in the validation of the HF Propagation code (which includes PRISM) in OpSend, and (3) the initial work on validating PRISM's boundary determination algorithms using DMSP data and tomographic reconstructions from various tomography groups. The Application development effort also involved three separate projects: (1) the development of IREP for calculating ionospheric range and elevation corrections and pulse dispersion from data driven PRISM output in near real time and implementing a demonstration version on an AFRL computer, (2) the initial development of IRDT, an ionospheric radar design tool based on PIM ionospheric climatology, and (3) the development of software to facilitate the use of PRISM for transionospheric range delay and Doppler shift calculations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA418509

Entities

People

  • Robert E. Daniell Jr.

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Altitude
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Boundaries
  • Computers
  • Doppler Effect
  • Electromagnetic Wave Propagation
  • Electron Density
  • Elevation
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Shift
  • Geosynchronous Orbits
  • Geosynchronous Satellites
  • Low Earth Orbits
  • Meteorological Satellites
  • Satellite Orbits

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Software Engineering.