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Alouette-2 Topside Sounder Ionogram Data

Whitteker, James H. (2025). Alouette-2 Topside Sounder Ionogram Data [Collection]. Space Physics Data Facility. https://doi.org/10.48322/sksz-8704.

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Description

These ionograms were digitized from the original Alouette 2 7-track analog telemetry tapes using the facilities of the former Data Evaluation Laboratory at the NASA/GSFC. This data restoration project is headed by Dr. R.F. Benson (NASA/GSFC). Ionograms were digitized at the rate of 40,000 16-bit samples/sec. This sample rate is higher than the Nyquist frequency of 30 kHz. The sample frequency of 40 kHz provides a measurement every 25 microseconds corresponding to an apparent range (c*t/2) interval of 3.75 km. The ionograms consist of swept-frequency operation (there is no fixed-frequency operation as in ISIS-1 and ISIS-2). The time resolution between ionograms is typically 31 seconds.

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Alouette-2 Topside Sounder Ionogram Data
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https://doi.org/10.48322/sksz-8704
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2026-05-13 13:28:27Z
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2026-05-13 21:14:17Z
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Description

These ionograms were digitized from the original Alouette 2 7-track analog telemetry tapes using the facilities of the former Data Evaluation Laboratory at the NASA/GSFC. This data restoration project is headed by Dr. R.F. Benson (NASA/GSFC). Ionograms were digitized at the rate of 40,000 16-bit samples/sec. This sample rate is higher than the Nyquist frequency of 30 kHz. The sample frequency of 40 kHz provides a measurement every 25 microseconds corresponding to an apparent range (c*t/2) interval of 3.75 km. The ionograms consist of swept-frequency operation (there is no fixed-frequency operation as in ISIS-1 and ISIS-2). The time resolution between ionograms is typically 31 seconds.

Acknowledgement
Users please acknowledge the Coordinated Data Analysis Web (CDAWeb) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Alouette-2 SFS instrument Principal Investigator J. H. Whitteker and Alouette/ISIS Data-Restoration project lead Robert F. Benson.
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Authors
Whitteker, James H.
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2025-11-14 16:01:55Z
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ISIS/Alouette Topside Sounder Data Restoration Project
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ISIS/Alouette page maintained by NASA GSFC with science and instrument descriptions, data access, software, and publication lists

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NSSDC's Master Catalog
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Information about the Sweep Frequency Sounder experiment on Alouette-2.

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FTP access to repository of Alouette-2 Ionograms in CDF format at NASA CDAWeb. The CDF files are organized by ground station, where each ground station is represented by a three letter ID and a two-digit code. The full names for each station are provided at https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/isis/isis-table1-new.html

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CDAWeb interactive interface for subsets, plots and lists of data

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Acknowledgement
Users please acknowledge the Coordinated Data Analysis Web (CDAWeb) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, ISIS-1 SFS instrument Principal Investigator J. H. Whitteker and ISIS Data-Restoration project lead Robert F. Benson.
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