Performance Analysis of a Portable Low-Cost SDR-Based Ionosonde
This work presents a software-defined radio ionosonde (ISDR) developed at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Italy) and the Institute of Radio Astronomy (Ukraine) and installed at the Ukrainian Antarctic Station in 2017. For the first time, the results of the long-term dat...
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ftmdpi:oai:mdpi.com:/2073-4433/14/1/159/ 2023-08-20T04:01:49+02:00 Performance Analysis of a Portable Low-Cost SDR-Based Ionosonde Oleksandr Koloskov Anton Kashcheyev Oleksandr Bogomaz Andriy Sopin Bogdan Gavrylyuk Andriy Zalizovski agris 2023-01-11 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14010159 EN eng Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Upper Atmosphere https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos14010159 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Atmosphere; Volume 14; Issue 1; Pages: 159 ionosphere ionosonde ionogram SDR USRP Text 2023 ftmdpi https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14010159 2023-08-01T08:14:10Z This work presents a software-defined radio ionosonde (ISDR) developed at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Italy) and the Institute of Radio Astronomy (Ukraine) and installed at the Ukrainian Antarctic Station in 2017. For the first time, the results of the long-term data comparison of the ISDR with the conventional ionosonde IPS-42 produced by KEL Aerospace are presented and discussed. The matching of the ionograms obtained during the whole year of 2021, as well as a comparison of the critical frequencies and virtual heights of F, E, and Es layers manually scaled from the ionograms showed that the ISDR has a similar level of performance to IPS-42. At the same time, the ISDR is a more versatile instrument that supports a bistatic operation, provides Doppler measurements and polarization information, and has a significantly lower cost and transmission power. Different configurations of the ISDR are considered. The basic configuration allows for using the ISDR as a conventional vertical ionospheric sounder. An enhanced configuration of the ISDR allows for oblique sounding, as well as polarization information that enables the O- and X-propagation modes of the ionospheric signal to be distinguished. The enhanced passive version of the ISDR was successfully tested onboard the research vessel “Noosfera” on distances up to 1,400 km from the transmitting ISDR. Text Antarc* Antarctic MDPI Open Access Publishing Antarctic Atmosphere 14 1 159 |
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This work presents a software-defined radio ionosonde (ISDR) developed at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Italy) and the Institute of Radio Astronomy (Ukraine) and installed at the Ukrainian Antarctic Station in 2017. For the first time, the results of the long-term data comparison of the ISDR with the conventional ionosonde IPS-42 produced by KEL Aerospace are presented and discussed. The matching of the ionograms obtained during the whole year of 2021, as well as a comparison of the critical frequencies and virtual heights of F, E, and Es layers manually scaled from the ionograms showed that the ISDR has a similar level of performance to IPS-42. At the same time, the ISDR is a more versatile instrument that supports a bistatic operation, provides Doppler measurements and polarization information, and has a significantly lower cost and transmission power. Different configurations of the ISDR are considered. The basic configuration allows for using the ISDR as a conventional vertical ionospheric sounder. An enhanced configuration of the ISDR allows for oblique sounding, as well as polarization information that enables the O- and X-propagation modes of the ionospheric signal to be distinguished. The enhanced passive version of the ISDR was successfully tested onboard the research vessel “Noosfera” on distances up to 1,400 km from the transmitting ISDR. |
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Performance Analysis of a Portable Low-Cost SDR-Based Ionosonde |
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Performance Analysis of a Portable Low-Cost SDR-Based Ionosonde |
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