Software for scaling and analysis of vertical incidence ionograms-ionoScaler
Software for scaling and analysis of vertical incidence ionograms-ionoScaler
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垂直入射电离图缩放和分析软件-ionoScaler
DOI：
10.1016/j.asr.2016.11.019
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发表时间：
2017-02-15
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Zhang, Yuannong
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作者：
Jiang, Chunhua;Yang, Guobin;Zhang, Yuannong
开发了一个名为ionoScaler（电离图缩放器）的软件工具，用于对垂直入射电离图进行手动和自动缩放。此外，该工具还可以通过重建电离层图的底侧和顶侧电子密度剖面来估算电离层总电子含量（ITEC）。在普洱（北纬22.7度，东经101.05度）和武汉（北纬30.5度，东经114.3度）记录的电离图被用来测试ionoScaler的功能。结果表明，该软件工具的电离图的缩放和ITEC的估计表现良好。然而，质量差的电离图会降低自动定标值的准确性。本文提出的ionoScaler将大大加快电离图的解释，也是估算TEC值的一种替代方法。此外，这一工具将有助于电离层和空间气象研究。(C)2016年空间研委会。由爱思唯尔有限公司出版。保留所有权利。
A software tool named ionoScaler (ionogram Scaler) was developed to carry out manual and automatic scaling of vertical incidence ionograms. Additionally, ionosonde Total Electron Content (ITEC) can be estimated by this tool through reconstructing the bottomside and topside electron density profiles of ionograms. Ionograms recorded at Puer (22.7 degrees N, 101.05 degrees E) and Wuhan (30.5 degrees N, 114.3 degrees E) were adopted to test features of the ionoScaler. Results show that the software tool performed well for scaling of ionograms and estimation of ITEC. However, bad quality ionograms would reduce the accuracy of automatic scaled (autoscaled) values. The ionoScaler presented in this paper will greatly expedite the interpretation of ionograms, and it is also an alternative method for estimation of TEC values. Moreover, this tool will be useful for research in the ionosphere and space weather. (C) 2016 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.