{"id":23209,"date":"2020-06-13T06:22:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T06:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=23209"},"modified":"2020-06-13T06:22:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T06:22:29","slug":"iig-develops-model-to-predict-ionospheric-electron-density-can-help-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/iig-develops-model-to-predict-ionospheric-electron-density-can-help-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"IIG develops model to predict ionospheric electron density can help communication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Researchers from the<strong> Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG), Navi Mumbai, <\/strong>have developed a new <strong>Artificial Neural Networks based global Ionospheric Model (ANNIM),<\/strong> a global model to predict the ionospheric electron density with larger data coverage which is a crucial need for communication and navigation.<br><br><strong><u>ANNIM:<\/u><\/strong><br>\u2666 The new ANNIM uses <strong>long-term ionospheric observations <\/strong>to predict the ionospheric electron density and the peak parameters.<br>\u2666 Generally, ANNs replicate the processes in the human brain or biological neurons to solve problems like pattern recognition, classification, clustering, generalization, linear and nonlinear data fitting, and time series prediction.<br>\u2666 So far, only a very few attempts have been made to model the globa<strong>l ionosphere variability using ANNs.<\/strong> The ionospheric variability is greatly influenced by both solar originated processes and the neutral atmosphere origin, therefore, difficult to model.<br>\u2666 The researchers developed a neural network-based global ionospheric model by using an extensive database consisting of nearly two decades of global Digisonde, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) radio occultation, and topside sounders observations. The data was trained with the ANNs using a<strong> high-performance computer <\/strong>at IIG to develop the ANNIM.<br>\u2666 The model developed by IIG researchers may be utilized as a reference model in the ionospheric predictions and has potential applications in calculating GNSS positioning errors.<br><br><strong><u>Note:<\/u><\/strong><br>Digisonde is an instrument that measures real-time on-site electron density of the ionosphere by sending the radiofrequency pulses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG), Navi Mumbai, have developed a new Artificial Neural Networks based global Ionospheric Model (ANNIM), a global model to predict the ionospheric electron density with larger data coverage which is a crucial need for communication and navigation. ANNIM:\u2666 The new ANNIM uses long-term ionospheric observations to predict the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1012],"tags":[1127],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-23209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-april-2020","tag-indian-institute-of-geomagnetism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23211,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23209\/revisions\/23211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23209"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=23209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}