The chapter is devoted to the development of a method for monitoring small-scale fluctuations in the total electronic content of the ionosphere using signals from global navigation satellite systems GPS/GLONASS and for evaluating the characteristics of such fluctuations in the interests of analyzing the noise immunity of satellite communication systems. The proposed method is based on digital processing of measurement results obtained using the advanced capabilities of the NovAtel GPStation-6 receiver and allows to estimate the root mean square of small-scale fluctuations in the total electron content of the ionosphere, the ionospheric scintillation index and to predict the changes in the noise immunity of satellite communication systems.
Part of the book: Ionosphere