This open access book provides a comprehensive toolbox of analysis techniques for
ionospheric multi-satellite missions. The immediate need for this volume was motivated
by the ongoing ESA Swarm satellite mission, but the tools that are described are general
and can be used for any future ionospheric multi-satellite mission with comparable
instrumentation.
In addition to researching the immediate plasma environment and its coupling to other
regions, such a mission aims to study the Earth's main magnetic field and its anomalies
caused by core, mantle, or crustal sources. The parameters for carrying out this kind
of work are examined in these chapters. Besides currents, electric fields, and plasma
convection, these parameters include ionospheric conductance, Joule heating, neutral
gas densities, and neutral winds.
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