Title :
Getting new science from old topside sounder data with new analysis technique
Author :
Bilitza, Dieter ; Benson, Robert F. ; Reinisch, Bodo W. ; Huang, Xueqin ; Truhlik, Vladimir
Author_Institution :
Space Weather Lab., George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA, USA
Abstract :
The Alouette and ISIS topside sounder satellites recorded a great wealth of information about the topside ionosphere during their long period of operations from 1962 to 1990. So much though that only a small percentage was analyzed during the mission life time. A data restoration effort first digitized the analog data and then developed the TOPIST software for automated inversion of the ionograms to electron density profiles [1,2]. We present the data base established with the help of this data restoration project and discuss some of the science results obtained with these data.
Keywords :
atmospheric electron precipitation; data analysis; ionosphere; ionospheric techniques; AD 1962 to 1990; Alouette satellite; ISIS topside sounder satellite; TOPIST software; analog data digitization; data analysis technique; data restoration; electron density profile; ionogram; topside ionosphere; topside sounder data;
Conference_Titel :
General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, 2011 XXXth URSI
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5117-3
DOI :
10.1109/URSIGASS.2011.6051113
