The simulation of low latitude ionospheric tomography by using ITS system

• Main Authors: Her-Yuan Chen, 陳鶴元
• Other Authors: Lung-Chih Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/eqs26p

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 太空科學研究所 === 94 === The Low Latitude Ionospheric Tomographic Network (LITN) suitable for the study of lare scale ionosphere structure , especially in the Taiwan area , we can study the large scale electron density variation in the equatorial anomaly region . In the past, NCU had begun to set up LITN . It consisted of six ground-based receivers spanning 20∘along Taiwan meridian (121∘E) to receiver beacon signals from the US Naval Navigation Satellite System (NNSS) with receiver JMR-1 in order to carry out the large scale experiments on two-dimensional ionospheric imaging by computerized tomography until the decommission of NNSS satellites in late 1997.Since July 2003, NCU has purchased 4 ITS30 receivers from North West Research Associates, Inc. (NWRA) and set them in Pingtung , Nantou and Taoyuan in Taiwan for the reestablishment of the NEW LITN with the hope to promote the receiving stations to other countries such as Philippines , Indonesia and so on in the near future . In this thesis, We have applied STK ,IRI-model to determine the location of LEO satellite and initial electron number density . In addition, the simulation study of GPS/MET and real data inversion with the ITS receiver were accomplished. A comparison is made between our results and dynasonde data, some possible explanation were discussed. After Formosat-3, which consist of six LEO satellites and one more frequency band (1066.67MHz), entered into their orbits, we can get more data for the inversion of CIT study.