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Based on the GNSS data from the China Crustal Movement Observation Network (CMONOC) and the International Reference Ionospheric Model (IRI), a fast three-dimensional (3D) electron density nowcasting model for China and its adjacent regions was developed. Unlike the traditional Gaussian background covariance model, the error covariance of the IRI model, based on the IGS grid TEC data, is estimated in this work. Due to the large scale of the high-resolution covariance matrix, it cannot be stored and calculated directly on a personal computer. The covariance localization (CL) technique is introduced to sparse the covariance matrix while removing the pseudo-correlation of the covariance matrix. After localization, the covariance matrix can be converted into a sparse matrix for storage and calculation, which greatly reduces the computer memory requirement of the assimilation model and improves the calculation speed of the model. Based on this algorithm, a series of experiments were carried out in this work. The experimental results show that this algorithm can effectively assimilate the observed GNSS to the background field, make up for the temporal and spatial limitations of the observed data, and improve the accuracy of the ionospheric electron density nowcast. Compared with the digisonde observed foF2 (the critical frequency of the ionospheric F2 layer), the RMSE of the assimilation model is 0.44 MHz lower than that of the IRI model.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14164003","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,17]],"date-time":"2022-08-17T22:53:30Z","timestamp":1660776810000},"page":"4003","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Ionospheric Kalman Filter Assimilation Based on Covariance Localization Technique"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Jiandong","family":"Qiao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Space Physics, School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2692-9451","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chen","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Space Physics, School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"}]},{"given":"Yi","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Space Physics, School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"}]},{"given":"Jiaqi","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Space Science and Applied Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China"}]},{"given":"Zhengyu","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Space Science and Applied Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"A11315.1","DOI":"10.1029\/2006JA011712","article-title":"Utah State University Global Assimilation of Ionospheric Measurements Gauss-Markov Kalman filter model of the ionosphere: Model description and validation","volume":"111","author":"Scherliess","year":"2006","journal-title":"J. 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