A Comparative Study of Estimating Auroral Electron Energy from Ground-Based Hyperspectral Imagery and DMSP-SSJ5 Particle Data

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Wanqiu Kong, Zejun Hu, Jiaji Wu, Tan Qu, Gwanggil Jeon
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020
• Subjects: aurora; atmospheric electron transport; auroral energy; hyperspectral data; DMSP SSJ5; Science; Q; Zhongshan; Zhongshan Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12142259; https://doaj.org/article/9e14c8cb9b174e9ebc6f1657776d01a5

Aurora, the spectacular phenomenon commonly occurring in high latitudes, is caused by the precipitation of energetic particles penetrating the Earth’s atmosphere. Being the result of solar-terrestrial interactions, electron precipitation significantly contributes to auroral production. To evaluate i...