A Software for Automatic Scaling of foF2 and MUF(3000)F2 from Ionograms

17-24 August 2002, Maastricht, Holland

A software for automatic scaling of critical frequency f0F2 and MUF(3000)F2 is presented. The program is designed to
scale the ionograms without using information on polarization and can be applied to both single antenna systems and
crossed antenna systems. A data set of 619 ionograms recorded at the ionospheric observatory of Rome has been used to
test the performance of the software. The test has been performed comparing the values obtained automatically with the
ones obtained by the standard manual method.

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