Reconstruction of plasmaspheric density distributions by applying a tomography technique to jason-1 plasmaspheric TEC measurements

We have developed a tomography algorithm and applied it to a plasmaspheric total electron content data set from Jason-1 satellite (∼1,336 km), which has a Global Positioning System receiver onboard. To invert the measured plasmaspheric total electron content into vertical distribution of electron density, we adopted a multiplicative algebraic reconstruction technique with an assumed initial densit...