A wave propagation model based on ray tracing for anisotropic and inhomogeneous ionosphere is described in this paper. A modular software tool, named IONOLAB-RAY, is developed to represent ray tracing through the spherical 3D grid model of the ionosphere. Physical parameters of the ionosphere are obtained from IRI-Plas-G for each grid volume. Refractive index of each grid volume is calculated by using Appleton-Hartree formula, which represents the effects of Earth's magnetic field, electron cyclotron frequency and collision frequency. The user has the opportunity to import GIM-TEC data, so that physical parameters of ionosphere can be obtained from a more realistic model especially at storm days.


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    Title :

    A model based ray tracing algorithm for anisotropic and inhomogeneous ionosphere with GIM-TEC assimilation


    Contributors:
    Erdem, Esra (author) / Ankan, Feza (author) / Deviren, M. Necat (author) / Cor, Ismail (author)


    Publication date :

    2015-06-01


    Size :

    859699 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English