An Integrated Technology of Ionospheric Backscatter Detection and Oblique Detection

Traditional single ground-based ionospheric detection methods often fail to obtain accurately ionospheric parameter information due to the measurement errors of detection systems and inverse algorithms. With the development of high frequency communication and radar sounding techniques, the ionospheric combined detection technology with multi-means is the most effective way to obtain the more accurate ionospheric characteristics. In this study, combined with ionospheric backscatter detection and oblique detection methods, an integrated ionospheric detection technology (quasi-backscatter detection technology) is proposed. The ionospheric parameters are obtained based on the minimum mean square error criterion and global searching method. The experimental results show that the inversion accuracy of ionospheric parameters is significantly improved by using quasi-backscatter detection system(42.3°N, GeoM). In addition, we simulate the propagation characteristics of the quasi-backscatter detection system by using ray tracing technique. And the variation characteristics between the propagation mode (and the propagation energy) and the angle of the transmitting-receiving beam are obtained.