SCIPION is a new state of the art digital sounder that has been developed by France TelecomCNET for ionospheric monitoring and research. Extensive data processing using DSP technology has resulted in a low power, low cost and full featured system for both vertical and oblique soundings. A SCIPION system is in the process of being installed in Dakar, Senegal, to study HF propagation in the sub-e...

The critical frequency of the F2-layer (foF2) is an important parameter in estimating the total electron content (TEC) of the ionosphere, which is necessary for predicting the ionospheric time delay in GPS applications. The foF2 data from Ahmedabad, which is in the equatorial anomaly region, are modelled using a multilayer neural network trained with back-propagation algorithm. The IRI-2001 mod...