Abstract:
A maximum usable frequency(MUF) prediction method based on data fusion is proposed. The method integrates the ionospheric vertical and oblique sounding system data fusion to detect data from multi-sounding system, to predict the maximum usable frequency of shortwave communication, experimental results show that the method can effectively improve the accuracy of MUF prediction, relative prediction error is reduced by 19.23%, reduce the absolute error of 0.33 MHz. Compared with the experimental results, the prediction accuracy in spring and autumn and winter is especially obvious, with an average of over 25% and over 10% in summer. This method is easy for engineering implementation, and can provide accurate data support for shortwave communication frequency selection and short wave broadcast coverage analysis.