Using Open Archives of Scaled Vertical Radiosonding Ionograms as Labeled Data for Training Machine Learning Models

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Andrey Olegovich Schiriy

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The idea of using the available large arrays of ionogram processing results from vertical radiosonde of the ionosphere as training datasets for building predictive models using machine learning methods is put forward. The most common formats for saving the results of ionogram processing are considered, as well as some Internet resources with archives of freely available files of these formats. These datasets are used by us to build predictive models, including time series of critical frequencies of ionospheric layers. It is also possible to use some datasets of ionogram processing results to train models designed for automatic ionogram processing.

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Schiriy, A. O. “Using Open Archives of Scaled Vertical Radiosonding Ionograms As Labeled Data for Training Machine Learning Models”. Russian Digital Libraries Journal, vol. 29, no. 2, Apr. 2026, pp. 532-45, doi:10.26907/1562-5419-2026-29-2-532-545.

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