TY - CONF
AU - Scott Driggers
AU - Steven Kaeppler
AB - Most ray tracers treat the problem as a Hamiltonian optics problem given an index of refraction, i.e., the ionosphere in this case.  However, Coleman 2011 developed a method for ray tracing that used a direct variation method.  The advantage of this method is that the endpoints of the ray remained fixed, while in more standard ray tracer, rays are launched until a link is made between the transmitter and receiver.  Development of this method may provide a potentially efficient method for determining the link between a transmitter receiver pair, given a model ionosphere.  We present efforts toward implementing the methodology described by Coleman 2011.
BT - HamSCI Workshop 2021
CY - Scranton, PA (Virtual)
DA - 03/2021
LA - eng
N2 - Most ray tracers treat the problem as a Hamiltonian optics problem given an index of refraction, i.e., the ionosphere in this case.  However, Coleman 2011 developed a method for ray tracing that used a direct variation method.  The advantage of this method is that the endpoints of the ray remained fixed, while in more standard ray tracer, rays are launched until a link is made between the transmitter and receiver.  Development of this method may provide a potentially efficient method for determining the link between a transmitter receiver pair, given a model ionosphere.  We present efforts toward implementing the methodology described by Coleman 2011.
PB - HamSCI
PP - Scranton, PA (Virtual)
PY - 2021
T2 - HamSCI Workshop 2021
TI - Implementation of a point-to-point ray tracer
UR - https://hamsci2021-uscranton.ipostersessions.com/?s=3A-71-3B-21-F1-51-7F-5B-44-BE-57-61-1A-79-02-6B
ER -