The invention provides a vertical measurement
ionogram E area trace
automation interpretation method based on
image processing. The method comprises the following steps of a, segmenting an E area and an F area of a vertical measurement
ionogram; b, detecting an E area candidate trace area; c, eliminating a non-trace area; d, based on a trace
diffusion characteristic, dividing the trace into four types, wherein a first type is an E layer, an E2 layer, an I type, an f type, a c type, an h type, an r type, a k type and an n type whose
diffusion degree is small, a second type is the E layer, an E2 layer, an I type, an f type, a c type, an h type, an r type, a k type and an n type whose
diffusion degree is large, a third type is an Es layer a type, a q type and an s type, and a fourth type is mixing of a straight line trace and an s type trace; e, merging trace areas of the third type; f, carrying out type identification and measurement on four types of traces respectively; and g, acquiring an E area parameter. By using the method in the invention, all the types of existing Es layer traces are comprehensively considered. And the method is a comprehensive
ionogram E trace identification method.