Scintillation Observations With the Ionospheric Occultation Experiment (IOX)

Physics

Scientific paper

Rate now

  [ 0.00 ] – not rated yet Voters 0   Comments 0

Details

2415 Equatorial Ionosphere, 2439 Ionospheric Irregularities

Scientific paper

The Ionospheric Occultation Experiment (IOX) is a dual-frequency GPS receiver with a single Earth-limb viewing antenna. Ionospheric remote sensing is possible during occultation events in which the line of sight to a GPS satellite being tracked by IOX sets through the Earth's limb. IOX is in a 67° inclination, 800 km altitude orbit, enabling it to make ionospheric measurements at all local times under near-solar maximum conditions over the course of its mission. IOX has been making routine measurements of occulting GPS satellites since the latter part of November 2001. Signal-to-noise (SNR) fluctuation observations associate the with GPS C/A code on the L1 frequency are identified as due to ionospheric scintillation by the geographic (equatorial/high latitude) and local time (post-sunset) morphologies. A preliminary analysis of scintillation climatology inferred from the IOX measurements will be presented and compared to a model of scintillation occurrence.

No associations

LandOfFree

Say what you really think

Search LandOfFree.com for scientists and scientific papers. Rate them and share your experience with other people.

Rating

Scintillation Observations With the Ionospheric Occultation Experiment (IOX) does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Scintillation Observations With the Ionospheric Occultation Experiment (IOX), we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Scintillation Observations With the Ionospheric Occultation Experiment (IOX) will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

     

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1433219

  Search
All data on this website is collected from public sources. Our data reflects the most accurate information available at the time of publication.