Real-Time Tomographic Inversion of Truncated Ionospheric GNSS Radio Occultations

Autor: Germán Olivares-Pulido, Manuel Hernández-Pajares, Enric Monte-Moreno, Haixia Lyu, Victoria Graffigna, Estel Cardellach, Mainul Hoque, Fabricio S. Prol, Riccardo Notarpietro, Miquel Garcia-Fernandez
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Remote Sensing, Vol 15, Iss 12, p 3176 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2072-4292
DOI: 10.3390/rs15123176
Popis: This paper presents a new way of combining Abel inversion and the Chapman model with a linearly increasing scale height to retrieve ionospheric electron density vertical profiles from truncated-sounding radio-occultation data. A linear Vary–Chap model is used to cover the blind region due to data truncation, with parameters estimated by enumeration of the possible values in a grid centered around a set of parameters compatible with ionospheric physics. The resulting electron density is estimated with its corresponding error from the linear least-squares solution presenting the smaller post-fit residual on the input GNSS carrier-phase measurements. The results, tested on a set of representative GNSS RO measurements obtained by COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3, show that this method can retrieve EDVPs with a predominant absolute and relative error of 1010e−m−3 and 5%, respectively, and in less than 10 s per profile, which makes this method suitable for near real-time applications in upcoming missions such as EUMETSAT Polar System-Second Generation.
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