Abstract
Science is undergoing very rapid changes due to the larger number of
people having the opportunity to do science and also with the
development of new and revolutionary techniques (e.g. machine learning).
The new concepts discovered to end up not gaining the deserved
prominence and are quickly discarded. We live in a world where great
discoveries have already been made and small new ideas need to be
cultivated and developed to rise to their deserved significance. An
interesting image can be a start point to attract scientists to know
more about some subject, but they are considered a time-consuming effort
and difficult to be done. The worries with the creation of the images
are not limited to beauty, but accurate drawing is fundamental to
science. Illustrated scientific posters made by dedicated design are
attractive but are often connected to companies and associated with the
sale of a product. Although the idea presented in simple posters can
lead to the imagination of new structures or relationships, one image of
this idea could more easily explain the concept and attract people,
encouraging a scientific debate. A list of commercial programs can be
cited as Linkscape, Adobe packages (CorelDRAW, illustrator, etc.),
Microsoft packages (Paint, PowerPoint, etc.) or even Matlab functions
and this work will present images produced for a better understanding of
ionospheric sciences. It is common knowledge that human memory is mostly
visual. The digital images can not only be used in paper posters but
also in digital posters, projections, websites, etc. The idea is to
motivate ionospheric scientists to draw their discoveries. The images,
and the scientific work itself, begin in a simple way and gain
complexity with the advancement of the scientific discoveries and could
be used for the author as a personal way to instigate a continuation of
the study. Complex systems studies like the ionospheric sciences are
often composed of multidisciplinary groups and are important to quickly
explain the meaning of some concept. To investigate the perception of
the scientist about the importance of images in explaining scientific
concepts a questionnaire was done to collect information about the
importance of scientific images in different fields of investigation.