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Title: Interobl: An interactive software tool for displaying and scaling oblique ionograms
Authors: Pezzopane, M.*
Pietrella, M.*
Keywords: Ionospheric monitoring
Ionogram scaling
Maximum usable frequency
Issue Date: 9-Aug-2008
Publisher: Elsevier
Title of journal: Computers & Geosciences
Series/Report no.: 11/34 (2008)
Abstract: By analyzing an oblique ionogram several characteristics, such as LOF, MOF, FMUF, FHLOF, FLLOF, and 2FMOF, can be found. These characteristics are important both for ionospheric studies and for terrestrial communication purposes, as they give information about the sky wave communication conditions in the High Frequency (HF) radio spectrum. A RCS-5B sweeping HF receiver for oblique sounding was installed at Chania (Crete, Greece, 35.71N, 24.01E) in April 2005 to perform a radio link with Inskip (UK, 53.51N, 2.51W). The receiver, able to record the sounding only as a binary file, was not equipped with a tool to display and scale the recorded trace. This work describes software that is able to do this, consequently increasing the speed of the scaling phase performed by the operator. The usefulness of this software for validating FMUF prediction models is also shown.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2122/4034
URL: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/cageo
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2007.09.018
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01.02.05. Wave propagation
01.02.06. Instruments and techniques

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