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The vertical ionogram offers key information about the ionosphere, including critical frequencies, virtual heights, and electron density, which are essential for ionospheric studies. In contrast, oblique ionosondes can probe the ionosphere above areas like oceans or challenging terrain where installing vertical sounders is impractical. They can also generate more ionograms using several simpler oblique ionosonde receivers at different locations, allowing increasing the density of ionospheric stations and available data. On the contrast, ionospheric parameters cannot be easily extracted from oblique ionograms due to long ranges and lower inclination of the transmitted ray. As a result, converting oblique ionograms into vertical ones (verticalization) is a good way to extract crucial ionospheric parameters and is consequently a valuable technique in ionospheric data analysis. In this poster a comparison of verticalized ionograms and the extracted ionospheric parameters have been done in several oblique stations placed at different sites and distances of the Italian IonoNet network of oblique sounding.
