HR: 09:30h
AN: S41D-07 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: The First Results About Earthquake Study with FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC
AU: * Liu, J Y
EM: jyliu@jupiter.ss.ncu.edu.tw
AF: Institute of Space Science, National Center University, TAIWAN, No.300, Jhongda Rd., Jhongli City, 32001, Taiwan
AU: * Liu, J Y
EM: jyliu@jupiter.ss.ncu.edu.tw
AF: Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, National Center University, TAIWAN, No.300, Jhongda Rd., Jhongli City, 32001, Taiwan
AU: Oyama, K
EM: oyama@jupiter.ss.ncu.edu.tw
AF: Institute of Space Science, National Center University, TAIWAN, No.300, Jhongda Rd., Jhongli City, 32001, Taiwan
AU: Jhuang, H K
EM: 93643002@cc.ncu.edu.tw
AF: Institute of Space Science, National Center University, TAIWAN, No.300, Jhongda Rd., Jhongli City, 32001, Taiwan
AU: iSTEP, M
EM: istep@jupiter.ss.ncu.edu.tw
AU: Hsiao, C C
EM: cchsiao@nspo.org.tw
AF: Institute of Electro-Optical Science and Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, TAIWAN, No.1, University Road, Tainan City, 701, Taiwan
AU: Hsiao, C C
EM: cchsiao@nspo.org.tw
AF: National Space Organization, TAIWAN, 8F, 9 Prosperity 1st Road, Hsinchu Science Park, HsinChu, 300, Taiwan
AU: Wang, Y H
EM: YHW@eembox.ncku.edu.tw
AF: Institute of Electro-Optical Science and Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, TAIWAN, No.1, University Road, Tainan City, 701, Taiwan
AU: Wang, Y H
EM: YHW@eembox.ncku.edu.tw
AF: National Space Organization, TAIWAN, 8F, 9 Prosperity 1st Road, Hsinchu Science Park, HsinChu, 300, Taiwan
AB: To improve the global weather prediction and space weather monitoring, six microsatellites termed the Formosa Satellite 3 - Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC) were launched into a circular low-Earth orbit (LEO) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, at 0140 UTC on 15 April 2006. Each microsatellite of the joint Taiwan-US satellite constellation mission has a GPS occultation experiment (GOX) payload to operate the atmospheric and ionospheric radio occultation, a tiny ionospheric photometer (TIP) to observe the nighttime ionospheric airglow OI 135.6 nm emission, and a tri-band beacon (TBB) to tomographically estimate fine structures of ionospheric electron density on the satellite-to-receiver plane. While the GOX daily observes about 2500 vertical electron density profiles up to the satellite altitude, the TIP provides accurate horizontal gradients of nighttime electron density. In this study, anomalies in the ionospheric electron density structure and dynamics concurrently observed by FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC and co-located ground- based GPS receivers before recent large earthquakes are presented and discussed.
DE: 1217 Time variable gravity (7223, 7230)
DE: 1242 Seismic cycle related deformations (6924, 7209, 7223, 7230)
SC: Seismology [S]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting