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In this paper GPS radio occultation has been introduced as a way to extract the electron density of the ionosphere. A GPS radio occultation occurs when a receiver on-board a LEO spacecraft tracks a GPS satellite as it sets or rises through the earth’s atmosphere. The recorded occulted signal phase and amplitude of the tracked satellite can then be analyzed to derive atmospheric electron density.TEC Monitoring has been studied tocorrect the error caused by the ionospher electron density in the telecommunication satellite global positioning system are briefly introduced as a tool for this method. One occultation event studied near one of the brazilion oson destations and the electron density curves obtained from the data reported Brazil Ionosonde are compared with radio methods.
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