Automated identification and tracking of polar-cap plasma patches at solar minimum

A method of automatically identifying and tracking polar-cap plasma patches, utilising data inversion and feature-tracking methods, is presented. A well-established and widely used 4-D ionospheric imaging algorithm, the Multi-Instrument Data Assimilation System (MIDAS), inverts slant total elect...

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Main Authors: R. Burston, K. Hodges, I. Astin, P. T. Jayachandran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2014-03-01
Series:Annales Geophysicae
Online Access:https://www.ann-geophys.net/32/197/2014/angeo-32-197-2014.pdf