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IMAGE radio plasma imager (RPI) Plasmagram Plots

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spase://NASA/DisplayData/IMAGE/RPI/PGM/PT5M

Description

Collection of RPI Plasmagram images at University of Massachusetts Lowell, covering complete mission period from 2000-04-21 to 2005-12-18. Access to images is arranged via a webpage containing a query form with the time period of interest and options for search of expert-annotated plasmagrams. The query returns a list of qualifying plasmagrams with URLs pointing to images. RPI plasmagrams are visualized by plotting images in which received signal strength (color scale) is a function of echo delay (range in vertical scale) and radio-sounder frequency (horizontal scale) of the sounder pulses. Echoes that can be used to derive remote, long-range, magnetospheric electron-density profiles, appear as discrete traces on plasmagrams. These plasmagram traces are intermixed with vertical signatures with greater intensity at shorter ranges, corresponding to locally excited plasma resonances, and other vertical signatures that cover the entire listening period, i.e., the entire virtual-range scale, corresponding to various natural and/or man-made emissions propagating in space and/or local interference.

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ResourceID
spase://NASA/DisplayData/IMAGE/RPI/PGM/PT5M
ResourceHeader
ResourceName
IMAGE radio plasma imager (RPI) Plasmagram Plots
ReleaseDate
2020-07-07 19:48:34Z
Description

Collection of RPI Plasmagram images at University of Massachusetts Lowell, covering complete mission period from 2000-04-21 to 2005-12-18. Access to images is arranged via a webpage containing a query form with the time period of interest and options for search of expert-annotated plasmagrams. The query returns a list of qualifying plasmagrams with URLs pointing to images. RPI plasmagrams are visualized by plotting images in which received signal strength (color scale) is a function of echo delay (range in vertical scale) and radio-sounder frequency (horizontal scale) of the sounder pulses. Echoes that can be used to derive remote, long-range, magnetospheric electron-density profiles, appear as discrete traces on plasmagrams. These plasmagram traces are intermixed with vertical signatures with greater intensity at shorter ranges, corresponding to locally excited plasma resonances, and other vertical signatures that cover the entire listening period, i.e., the entire virtual-range scale, corresponding to various natural and/or man-made emissions propagating in space and/or local interference.

Acknowledgement
Users please acknowledge B. W. Reinisch of the University of Massachusetts Lowell for making these plasmagram images available.
Contacts
RolePersonStartDateStopDateNote
1.PrincipalInvestigatorspase://SMWG/Person/Bodo.W.Reinisch
2.DataProducer
TechnicalContact
spase://SMWG/Person/Ivan.A.Galkin
InformationURL
Name
IMAGE RPI Instrument Page
URL
Description

IMAGE RPI Instrument page maintained by NASA GSFC with RPI facts, description, team, data, documents, discoveries, and related links sections

Language
en
InformationURL
Name
IMAGE RPI Instrument Page at UML
URL
Description

IMAGE RPI Instrument page maintained by University of Massachusetts Lowell with RPI description, team, software downloads, software user guides, access to CORPRAL automated prospecting results, mission planning tools and commanding guide, data model descriptions for Level 0 and 1, sonification files of 2003 Halloween storm, and useful links

Language
en
Association
AssociationID
AssociationType
DerivedFrom
PriorIDs
spase://VWO/DisplayData/IMAGE/RPI/IMAGE_RPI_PNG_PGM_PT5M
spase://VWO/DisplayData/IMAGE/RPI/PGM.PT5M
spase://VSPO/DisplayData/IMAGE/RPI/PGM/PT5M
AccessInformation
RepositoryID
Availability
Online
AccessRights
Open
AccessURL
Name
RPI Plasmagram Browser
URL
Description

Repository of RPI plasmagram images at University of Massachusetts Lowell, containing web query form to retrieve individual images.

Language
en
Format
PNG
Encoding
None
DataExtent
Quantity
70000
Units
byte
Per
PT5M
Acknowledgement
Users please acknowledge B. W. Reinisch of the University of Massachusetts Lowell for making these dynamic spectrograms available.
ProcessingLevel
Calibrated
ProviderProcessingLevel
Level 1, calibrated data in physical units. Spacecraft MET to UT is converted using history of IMAGE observatory clock drift. All images produced by ShowPlasmagram tool from raw telemetry data.
InstrumentIDs
MeasurementType
Waves.Active
TemporalDescription
TimeSpan
StartDate
2000-04-21 20:24:42Z
StopDate
2005-12-18 07:50:00Z
Note
Cadence of plasmagram measurements is variable depending on the science objective and RPI operating schedule design
Cadence
PT5M
Exposure
PT1M
SpectralRange
RadioFrequency
DisplayCadence
PT5M
ObservedRegion
Earth.Magnetosphere
ObservedRegion
Earth.NearSurface.Plasmasphere
ObservedRegion
Earth.NearSurface.AuroralRegion
ObservedRegion
Earth.NearSurface.PolarCap
ObservedRegion
Heliosphere.Inner
Caveats
Less than 20% of all plasmagrams contain signatures of remote reflections that can be used to derive remote electron-density profiles. The RPI instrument is, in a sense, a radar of opportunity: for its 10 Watt signal to reflect at a remote location as far as 40,000 km away, return to the spacecraft location, and appear above the noise level to be detected, a number of conditions needs to be satisfied. When they are satisfied, a great deal can be deduce about the intervening magnetospheric plasma. Plasmagrams that do not produce such echoes often produce stimulated plasma phenomena containing a wealth of information about local plasma conditions. Such plasmagram data exploration, however, often requires a substantial manual labor expense.
Keywords
Plasmagram
Echo
Trace
Field-Aligned Propagation
Ducted Echo
Epsilon
Discrete Echo
Diffuse Echo
Plasma Resonance
Proton Echo
Proton Spur
Ion Spur
Parameter #1
Name
Signal Strength
Description

Received signal strength, expressed as AC Electric Field in units of dB(nV/m). Plotted values are obtained as ratio of antenna voltage in [nV] over effective antenna length in [m], expressed for a better visualization in the logarithmic scale as [dB relative to 1 nV/m].

Cadence
PT5M
Units
dB(nVm)
Wave
WaveType
PlasmaWaves
Qualifier
Magnitude
Qualifier
Pseudo
WaveQuantity
ACElectricField
FrequencyRange
SpectralRange
RadioFrequency
Low
3
High
3000
Units
kHz