Extremely large ionospheric spatial gradients could cause potential integrity threats to Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS) users. The importance of understanding ionosphere behavior is not limited to cases of extreme ionospheric events. Broader knowledge of both nominal and anomalous ionospheric behavior would help improve the design and operation of GBAS. We developed an automated tool f...

We show how it is possible to combine GPS/MET oc-cultation data with ground data collected from 100+ IGS stations to perform stochastic tomography of the ionospheric electron content with a 3D global grid of voxels extending up to 2000 km above the mean surface of the Earth, and thus produce temporal series of 3D images of the ionospheric electron content. A correlation functional approach that...

Electron density distribution is the major determining parameter of the ionosphere. Computerized Ionospheric Tomography (CIT) is a method to reconstruct ionospheric electron density image by computing Total Electron Content (TEC) values from the recorded Global Positioning Satellite System (GPS) signals. Due to the multi-scale variability of the ionosphere and inherent biases and errors in the ...

In the last couple of decades ionospheric radio tomography by navigation low earth orbit satellite signal methods has been intensively evaluated. This kind of tomography consists of the synchronous registration of one satellite signal by a number of receiving stations and is followed by an ionosphere electron content distribution reconstruction based on a set of integral values (signal phase de...

COSMIC GPS Radio occultation systems are developed for investigating global ionospheric and tropospheric features of atmosphere ionospheric effects are a major critical concern in radio communications and navigation systems. The predominant ionospheric effect is scintillation, which causes small scale fading in GNSS received signals. Hence, there is a necessity to understand the ionospheric mor...