Radio Soundings And Plasma Physics: 2007

This volume provides an introduction to the principles of radio sounding, a description of advances in hardware and data systems, and data processing and analysis software, including electron density profile inversions, for data from modern digital ionospheric sounders, especially the digisondes, and digisonde operation instructions. It is the most comprehensive documentation for digisondes and can serve as a master reference source for digisonde users. It also provides an overview of the international research activities using radio sounding and presents the newest scientific results from the Radio Plasma Imager on NASA's IMAGE satellite and related plasma physics subjects.

Radio Sounding and Plasma Physics
The Struggle to Get RPI on the IMAGE Mission	p. 3
The Importance of Bottomside and Topside Sounding Measurements for the Development of IRI	p. 9
Plasma Physics Using Space-borne Radio Sounding	p. 20
A Tribute to the ARTIST	p. 34
From COST 238 to COST 296: Four European COST Actions on Ionospheric Physics and Radio Propagation	p. 39
The Progress of the South African Ionosonde Network	p. 47
Ionospheric Response to the Interplanetary Shock	p. 52
Solar Flare Effects upon the Ionospheres of Earth and Mars	p. 58
Climatology and Variability of the Ionosphere: Incoherent Scatter Radar Observations	p. 71
On the Concept of Penetration Electric Field	p. 81
Sounding the Magnetosphere
Highlights of RPI Sounding of the Plasmasphere and Polar Regions at Frequencies in the Whistler and Z-mode Domains	p. 89
Radio Plasma Imager and Measurement of Magnetospheric Field-aligned Electron Density	p. 97
Intelligent Resident Archive for RPI Level 2 Data	p. 111
IMAGE RPI Reawakens Plasmaspheric Refilling Research	p. 118
Digital Ionospheric Sounding System
Advancing Digisonde Technology: The DPS-4D	p. 127
Precise Radar Range Measurements with Digisondes	p. 144
The ARTIST 5	p. 150
The SAOXML 5: New Format for Ionogram-derived Data	p. 160
Digisonde Drift Analysis Software	p. 167
Exploring Digisonde Ionogram Data with SAO-X and DIDBase	p. 175
Author Index	p. 187
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Radio Soundings And Plasma Physics: 2007 Radio Plasma Imager Science Team Meeting, April 27, 2007 Radio Sounding and Plasma Physics Symposium, April 29, XI International Digisonde Forum,

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