The application discloses an ionospheric parameter inversion method and
system based on short-wave
time difference information. A plurality of near-distance receiving stations are used to form a receiving
station cluster, so that the reflection area of the short-
wave propagation path corresponding to each receiving
station in the
ionosphere is approximately a common ionospheric reflection area, and a same set of F2 layer parameters is used to describe the ionospheric state of the area. The application obtains the
observation time difference of each receiving
station relative to a reference receiving station, performs
ray tracing forward in a candidate parameter space to obtain the theoretical group path of each receiving station and calculate the theoretical
time difference, searches for optimal ionospheric parameters by taking the error minimization of the
observation time difference and the theoretical
time difference as a criterion, and realizes the inversion of the F2 layer
critical frequency, the peak height and the half thickness of the common ionospheric reflection area. The application uses the relative time difference between the receiving stations to replace the absolute
propagation time delay for inversion, eliminates the influence of non-ionospheric factors such as the unknown
transmission time,
system delay and
receiver clock difference, and improves the inversion precision and reliability.