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When signals pass through ionospheric irregularities, their amplitude and phase are often attenuated and distorted. In this work, the statistical features of scintillation observed by the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and low earth orbit (LEO) satellites are investigated with Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC) data in solar cycle 24. The amplitude scintillation propagation channel is fitted by the Nakagami-m, \u03b1-\u03bc and \u03ba-\u03bc models. The performance is evaluated in terms of root mean square error (RMSE), kurtosis and information entropy. The results reveal that the \u03b1-\u03bc model achieves the best performance in all considered scintillation intensities, while the Nakagami-m model achieves better performance under severe scintillation in the GNSS-LEO propagation channels.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14030578","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,26]],"date-time":"2022-01-26T03:33:32Z","timestamp":1643168012000},"page":"578","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Study of the Ionospheric Scintillation Radio Propagation Characteristics with Cosmic Observations"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Zhuo","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Instrumentation and Opto-Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1793-0645","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yang","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Instrumentation and Opto-Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"},{"name":"Marconi Lab, Science, Technology and Innovation Section, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 34151 Trieste, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4997-0345","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kai","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6485-780X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jinling","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"324","DOI":"10.1109\/PROC.1982.12313","article-title":"Radio wave scintillation in the ionosphere","volume":"70","author":"Yeh","year":"1982","journal-title":"Proc. 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