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THE forthcoming advent of the Polar Beacon Ionosphere Satellite1 has again focused scientific interest on the use of simultaneous Faraday rate and Doppler measurements for obtaining further new data about the integrated electron density along paths in the ionosphere. It might be useful, therefore, to describe a method by means of which the electron content can be obtained without approximation assumptions other than the following: isotropic and static medium, validity of reciprocity theorem, and equal propagation paths (for the various frequencies used simultaneously).
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ARENDT, P. Measurement of Ionospheric Electron Content Regardless of Approximations. Nature 197, 579–580 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197579a0
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