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Imaging ionospheric inhomogeneities using spaceborne synthetic aperture radar

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Abstract

We present a technique and results of 2-D imaging of Faraday rotation and total electron content using spaceborne L band polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR). The results are obtained by processing PolSAR data collected using the Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) on board the Advanced Land Observation Satellite. Distinguished ionospheric inhomogeneities are captured in 2-D images from space with relatively high resolutions of hundreds of meters to a couple of kilometers in auroral-, middle-, and low-latitude regions. The observed phenomena include aurora-associated ionospheric enhancement arcs, the middle-latitude trough, traveling ionospheric disturbances, and plasma bubbles, as well as ionospheric irregularities. These demonstrate a new capability of spaceborne synthetic aperture radar that will not only provide measurements to correction of ionospheric effects in Earth science imagery but also significantly benefit ionospheric studies.

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Author(s): Pi X, Freeman A, Chapman B, Rosen P, Li Z

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Year: 2011

Volume: 116

Issue: A4

Print publication date: 08/04/2011

ISSN (print): 2169-9380

ISSN (electronic): 2169-9402

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010JA016267

DOI: 10.1029/2010JA016267

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