Ionospheric scintillation and total electron content monitoring system
AssigneeBoard of Regents, The University of Texas System
InventorsFabiano Da Silveira Rodrigues, Josemaria Gomez Socola
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Abstract
The present disclosure presents systems method for remote sensing of the ionosphere. One such method comprises providing a single-board computer communicatively connected to a global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receiver which is preconfigured to determine global positioning system coordinates by communicating with a set of GNSS satellites, reconfiguring the function of the single-board computer and GNSS receiver to acquire a set of GNSS signal parameters; and determining the set of physical properties of an ionosphere from the set of GNSS signal parameters. Other methods and systems are also provided.
Claims17
An ionosphere measuring system comprising:
- an ionosphere monitoring device comprising a global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receiver, a GNSS antenna, a single-board computer, and software for signal acquisition and processing;
- the GNSS receiver electrically connected to the GNSS antenna for receiving radio frequency (RF) signals from a set of GNSS satellites;
- and
- the single-board computer operating a set of programmatic instructions and communicatively connected to the GNSS receiver;
- wherein the single-board computer is further configured to:
- extract a set of specific parameters from the GNSS receiver;
- and,
- determine physical properties of an ionosphere from the set of specific parameters,
- wherein the GNSS receiver has a minimum sampling rate of the set of specific parameters of 10 Hz for at least two different RF frequencies and a minimum resolution of SNR values for at least two different RF frequencies of 1 dB.
A method for measuring physical properties of an ionosphere comprising the steps of:
- providing a single-board computer communicatively connected to a global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receiver which is preconfigured to determine global positioning system coordinates by communicating with a set of GNSS satellites,
- reconfiguring a function of the single-board computer and GNSS receiver to acquire a set of GNSS signal parameters;
- and
- determining the set of physical properties of an ionosphere from the set of GNSS signal parameters,
- wherein the reconfiguration comprises:
- implementing acquisition software in computer code which is capable of acquiring, from the GNSS receiver, the set of GNSS signal parameters to determine physical properties of the ionosphere;
- operating the acquisition software uninterruptedly in the single-board computer;
- and
- implementing acquisition of the set of GNSS signal parameters at a sampling rate of at least 10 Hz.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.