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Terrestrial Plasmasphere Feature Tracking and Volume Visualization via Tomographic Backprojection
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| The proposed work will enable more accurate and useful exploitation of satellite data of the terrestrial plasmasphere. A recently-developed tomographic backprojection technique that allows reconstruction of plasma densities in3-space from a single satellite image will be enhanced by coupling with conservative models of plasma distribution in the ionosphere and inner plasmasphere. Integration of data from multiple viewpoints will also be utilized to produce derived volume data products suitable for scientific study. In addition to allowing the volumetric visualization of plasma distributions in the plasmasphere by traditional volume rendering methods, the work will enable plasma features to be manually observed. To aid the observation process, methods to track plasma features in the reconstructed images and volumes will also be developed. |
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