Automated detection of the magnetopause for space weather from the IMAGE satellite

Michael L. Rilee; James L. Green

doi:10.1117/12.381718

5 April 2000 Automated detection of the magnetopause for space weather from the IMAGE satellite

Michael L. Rilee, James L. Green

Proceedings Volume 4056, Wavelet Applications VII; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.381718
Event: AeroSense 2000, 2000, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The radio plasma imager (R.I.) is a low power radar on board the IMAGE spacecraft to be launched early in year 2000. The principal science objective of RPI. is to characterize the plasma in the Earth's magnetosphere by radio frequency imaging. A key product of RPI is the plasmagram, a map of radio signal strength vs. echo delay-time vs. frequency, on which magneto spheric structures appear as curves of varying intensity. Noise and other emissions will also appear on RPI plasmagrams and when strong enough will obscure the radar echoes. RPI echoes from the Earth's magnetopause will be of particular importance since the magnetopause is the first region that the solar wind impacts before producing geomagnetic storms. To aid in the analysis of RPI plasmagrams and ind all echoes from the Earth's magnetopause, a computer program has been developed to automatically detect and enhance the radar echoes. The technique presented in derived within a Bayesian framework and centers on the construction and analysis of a likelihood function connecting magneto spheric structures and RPI plasmagrams. Once this technique has been perfected on archival IMAGE data it will be recorded and used on board the IMAGE spacecraft in a series of test thereby greatly facilitating organizations like the NOAA SEC to perform real-time analysis of space weather.

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Michael L. Rilee and James L. Green "Automated detection of the magnetopause for space weather from the IMAGE satellite", Proc. SPIE 4056, Wavelet Applications VII, (5 April 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.381718

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