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em Física e Astronomia
Programa de
Doutorado e Mestrado
Automatic scaling of vertical
Dr. Michael PezzopaneIstituto Nazionale di Geo�sica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Rome, Italy
3947-1121 www.univap.brUniversidade do Vale do Paraíba
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ionograms and its applications
ABSTRAC
In the last decades, the importance of getting real time
ionospheric data to be used for space weather purposes has
greatly increased. For this reason since 80s much work has been
performed to develop computer programs able to automatically
scale the ionograms giving as output the standard ionospheric
characteristics along with an estimate of the vertical electron
density pro�le. This paper describes the main characteristics of
Autoscala, a software that has been developed in the last �fteen
years at the Istituto Nazionale di Geo�sica e Vulcanologia to
automatically scale vertical ionograms. Advantages and
disadvantages of the algorithm will be discussed, as well as the
outstanding problems that should be faced to improve more and
more the reliability of the output. Results of comparisons
between the outputs of Autoscala and ARTIST (the autoscaling
system developed by the University of Lowell, Massachusetts,
USA) after processing ionograms recorded at the Rome
ionospheric station will be shown. An example of Autoscala
processing on ionograms recorded at Sao Jose dos Campos during
March 2004 will be also shown.