Dual Empirical Orthogonal Functions Restrained Tomographic Model for Ionosphere Imaging

Yu, Jingjie; Zhu, Yanyu; Dai, Yuchen; Zhu, Haoyu; Huang, Yingqi; Wu, Lixin; Sun, Yuqing

doi:10.1109/tgrs.2022.3225410

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“…The GNSS-based computerized ionospheric tomography (CIT) technique is a powerful tool for ionospheric sounding, and has been successfully used for reconstructing large-scale three-dimensional structures of ionospheric electron density (IED) [1,2]. Numerous efforts have been made to develop diverse tomographic techniques for imaging the ionosphere for different purposes, such as correcting the ionospheric delay experienced by GNSS signals [3][4][5][6] and monitoring the ionospheric space weather [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22].…”

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An Extended Simultaneous Algebraic Reconstruction Technique for Imaging the Ionosphere Using GNSS Data and Its Preliminary Results

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To generate high-quality reconstructions of ionospheric electron density (IED), we propose an extended simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique (ESART). The ESART method distributes the discrepancy between the actual GNSS TEC and the calculated TEC among the ray–voxels based on the contribution of voxels to GNSS TEC, rather than the ratio of the length of ray–voxel intersection to the sum of the lengths of all ray–voxel intersections, as is adopted by conventional methods. The feasibility of the ESART method for reconstructing the IED under different levels of geomagnetic activities is addressed. Additionally, a preliminary experiment is performed using the reconstructed IED profiles and comparing them with ionosonde measurements, which provide direct observations of electron density. The root mean square errors (RMSE) and absolute errors of the ESART method, the simultaneous algebraic reconstruction technique (SART) method, and the International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) 2016 model are calculated to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Compared to the conventional SART method of ionospheric tomography and the IRI-2016 model, the reconstructed IED profiles obtained using the ESART method are in better agreement with the electron density obtained from the ionosondes, especially for the peak electron densities (NmF2). In addition, a case study of an intense geomagnetic storm on 17–19 March 2015 shows that the spatial and temporal features of storm-related ionospheric disturbances can be more clearly depicted using the ESART method than with the SART method.

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