Research on an ionospheric delay correction method for the interferometric imaging radar altimeter based on improved GIM data

The Interferometric Imaging Radar Altimeter (InIRA) is alow-orbit single-frequency altimeter whose signals are subject to an ionospheric delay, which introduces measurement errors. Additionally, some difficulties, such as selecting the interpolation algorithm and intercepting the height scale, arise...

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Published inJournal of spatial science Vol. 68; no. 3; pp. 373 - 383
Main Authors Miao, Hongli, Qu, Renchao, Mao, Peng, Miao, Xiangying
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis 03.07.2023
Subjects
GIM
InIRA
Ionosphere
IRI-2016
TEC scale factor
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Summary:The Interferometric Imaging Radar Altimeter (InIRA) is alow-orbit single-frequency altimeter whose signals are subject to an ionospheric delay, which introduces measurement errors. Additionally, some difficulties, such as selecting the interpolation algorithm and intercepting the height scale, arise when applying the ionospheric correction model. Based on Sentinel-3A dual-frequency measurements, this paper suggests that linear variogram-based kriging is suitable for spatial interpolation, and the total electron content height scale coefficient calculated by the hierarchical IRI forecast model can be applied to the interpolated GIM intercept. When the improved GIM value is applied to four scenes of InIRA data, the obtained Ku-band ionospheric correction varies from 1.49cm to 1.57cm.
ISSN:1449-8596
1836-5655
DOI:10.1080/14498596.2021.2006809