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    Identifying Geomagnetic Storms with Ionospheric Storm Scale for GNSS and Disaster Prevention
    (2020-03-01) ; ; ; ;
    Tangtrakunphaisan, Udomsit
    This paper proposes an ionospheric storm scale (I-scale) for identifying the impact of geomagnetic or ionospheric storms in the Ionosphere for GNSS (global navigation satellite system) service and disaster prevention. The I-scale in this work is computed based on the observed foF2 at Chumphon station (10.72°N, 99.37°E) over equatorial latitude from January 2004 to July 2018. The results report that the severe geomagnetic storms, i.e., IP3 and IN3, seldom occur at Chumphon with the probabilities of 0.02% and 0.07%, respectively. The probability of quiet ionospheric condition is the maximum value of 70.73%. Meanwhile, the other I-scales sometimes occur and range from 0.60% to 13.97%. The benefits of the foF2-based I-scale are to indicate the violence level of geomagnetic storms and to announce the ionospheric irregularities in practice.
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    Exploring Ground Reflection Effects on Received Signal Strength Indicator and Path Loss in Far-Field Air-to-Air for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Enabled Wireless Communication
    Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless communications are becoming increasingly important in applications such as maritime and forest rescue operations. UAV systems often depend on wireless networking and mobile edge computing (MEC) devices for effective deployment, particularly in swarm UAV-enabled MEC configurations focusing on channel modeling and path loss characteristics for air-to-air (A2A) communications. This paper examines path loss characteristics in far-field (FF) ground reflection scenarios, specifically comparing two environments: FF1 (forest floor) and FF2 (seawater floor). LoRa modules operating at 868 MHz were deployed for communication between a transmitting UAV (Tx-UAV) and a receiving UAV (Rx-UAV) to conduct this study. We investigated the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) and path loss characteristics across channel bandwidths of 125 kHz and 250 kHz and spread factors (SF) of 7, 9, and 12. Experimental results show that ground reflection has minimal impact in the FF1 scenario, whereas, in the FF2 scenario, ground reflection significantly influences communication. Therefore, in the seawater environment, a UAV-enabled LoRa MEC configuration using a 250 kHz bandwidth and an SF of 7 is recommended to minimize the effects of ground reflection.
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    A New Method for Computing Ionogram-Based TEC Based on Digisonde data for Disaster Prevention
    (2020-03-01) ; ; ;
    Srisamoodkham, Worachai
    This paper presents a new approach for calculating the ionogram-based total electron content so as to be applied alternatively for alarming and preventing the disasters, for example, earthquake, tsunami or other space objectives. The proposed ITEC is estimated using the analytical expression of NeQuick model, the autoscaled Digisonde data, and a new variable "m" of 1. The results are show that 1) the proposed B0 is close to the B0-obs of Digisonde compared to the B0-IRI and the B2bot of the NeQuick model, 2) the diurnal variation of B0-Pro is the same as that of B0-obs compared to those of B0-IRI and B2bot, 3) the proposed ITEC is also close to the ITEC of Digisonde and TEC-iri, excluding the observed GPS TEC, and 4) all of the studied TEC values behave similar diurnal variations. Since the proposed ITEC is based on the analytical functions, the improvement of TEC-B0-Pro can be conducted reliably in order to close to the GPS TEC possibly and apply it optionally to correct the positioning errors for GNSS and aviation systems.