Perspective panoramic auroral imager and its opportunities for tomographic mapping and diagnostics of ionospherical characteristics from the satellite Original Research Article

To be able to control the condition of space and particularly the Earth inonosphere in real time is one of the most important goals of the space research for warning of the malfunction threat in the work of the ground and cosmic technological systems and to ensure their stable functioning. The ionospheric energetic characteristics diagnostics method by means of spectrophotometric analysis of upper atmosphere emissions intensity distribution is being developed. Serial panoramic monochromatic measuring of upper atmosphere emissions intensity from the orbit may become the main data source for such analysis. One of the ways of the experimental realization could be the imager scheme variant that would detect panoramic monochromatic auroral images from the orbit of the satellite. Optical scheme of the imager in visible range are considered. The advantages of presented scheme are discussed.