Abstract A novel ionospheric tomography technique based on variable pixel height was developed for the tomographic reconstruction of the ionospheric electron density distribution. The method considers the height of each pixel as an unknown variable, which is retrieved during the inversion process together with the electron density values. In contrast to conventional computerized ionospheric tomography (CIT), which parameterizes the model with a fixed pixel height, the variable-pixel-height computerized ionospheric tomography (VHCIT) model applies a disturbance to the height of each pixel. In comparison with conventional CIT models, the VHCIT technique achieved superior results in a numerical simulation. A careful validation of the reliability and superiority of VHCIT was performed. According to the results of the statistical analysis of the average root mean square errors, the proposed model offers an improvement by 15% compared with conventional CIT models.


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    Titel :

    Research on ionospheric tomography based on variable pixel height


    Beteiligte:
    Zheng, Dunyong (Autor:in) / Li, Peiqing (Autor:in) / He, Jie (Autor:in) / Hu, Wusheng (Autor:in) / Li, Chaokui (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 57 , 9 ; 1847-1858


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2016-01-25


    Format / Umfang :

    12 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch






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