Citation: | Liang Chen, Ming Ou, YaPing Yuan, Fang Sun, Xiao Yu, WeiMin Zhen. 2018: Preliminary observation results of the Coherent Beacon System onboard the China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite-1. Earth and Planetary Physics, 2(6): 505-514. DOI: 10.26464/epp2018049 |
This paper reports, for the first time, observation results of the Coherent Beacon System (CBS) onboard the China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite-1 (CSES-1). We describe the CBS, and the Computerized Ionospheric Tomography (CIT) algorithm program is validated by numerical experiment. Two examples are shown, for daytime and nighttime respectively. The Equatorial Ionization Anomaly (EIA) can be seen, and the northern crest core is located at ~20°N in the reconstruction image at 07:28 UTC on 20 July 2018 (daytime). Disturbances are shown in the reconstruction image at 18:40 UTC on 13 July 2018 (nighttime). We find that beacon measurements are more consistent with ionosonde measurements than model results, by comparing