Ionospheric Tomography

✍ Scribed by Professor Dr. Viacheslav E. Kunitsyn, Dr. Evgeny D. Tereshchenko (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 262
• Series: Physics of Earth and Space Environments
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The purpose of this monograph is both to introduce and review developed tomograhic methods for discovering 2D and 3D structures of the ionosphere and to discuss the experimental implementation of these methods. The theoretical part deals with the solution of the inverse problem of diffraction tomography for a wide range of properties of ionospheric media. Examples are given to illustrate the experimental reconstruction of electron-density distributions in ionospheric sections. In addition to addressing the specialist researcher, the detailed derivations and explanations make this book an excellent starting point for nonspecialists and graduate students who wish to enter this exciting new field to which the authors have made pioneering contributions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Ionosphere: Structure and Basic Methods for Radio Sounding and Monitoring....Pages 5-19
Ray Radio Tomography....Pages 21-89
Inverse Scattering Problems....Pages 91-127
Diffraction Radio Tomography of Ionospheric Irregularities....Pages 129-155
Statistical Radio Tomography of a Randomly Inhomogeneous Ionosphere....Pages 157-193
Further Development of Tomographic Methods....Pages 195-221
Summary....Pages 223-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-259

✦ Subjects

Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences;Measurement Science and Instrumentation;Geophysics/Geodesy