Prol, Fabricio dos Santos [UNESP]Camargo, Paulo de Oliveira [UNESP]Hernandez-Pajares, ManuelAssis Honorato Muella, Marcio Tadeu de2019-10-042019-10-042019-05-01Ieee Transactions On Geoscience And Remote Sensing. Piscataway: Ieee-inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, v. 57, n. 5, p. 2571-2582, 2019.0196-2892http://hdl.handle.net/11449/185651A new tomographic method was developed with the main goal of mapping the ionosphere in the region of Brazil. The ionospheric background was estimated based on ionosonde and radio-occultation measurements to overcome the lack of data provided by climatological models in low-latitude regions. A new method of performing iterations of the conventional multiplicative algebraic reconstruction technique (MART) was also used in order to avoid nonilluminated cells and improve the spatial resolution. The quality assessment using independent ionosonde data during two weeks in 2013 showed a better performance of the proposed method in comparison to the international reference ionosphere, providing improvements of 31% for the F-layer peak height h(m) and 24% for the ionospheric peak of electron density N-m. The tomographic technique was also evaluated in the estimation of the total electron content (TEC) and in the single-frequency precise point positioning (PPP). Improvements of 59% in TEC and 31% in the single-frequency PPP were obtained in comparison to the results derived from global ionospheric maps. In addition, a better daily description of the ionosphere was obtained using the proposed method, where it was possible to detect the peak height increasing associated with the prereversal enhancement of the vertical plasma drift that occurs near sunset hours. The results reveal that the modified form of the MART tomographic technique can be considered a useful tool for technical and scientific communities involved in space weather, spatial geodesy, and telecommunications.2571-2582eng3-D ionosphereequatorial ionization anomaly (EIA)Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)multiplicative algebraic reconstruction technique (MART)prereversal enhancement ExB driftradio occultation (RO)Artigo10.1109/TGRS.2018.2874974WOS:000466183500009Acesso aberto67907082475988130000-0001-7648-1291