We theoretically estimate the comparative efficiency of the conventional methods of sounding of the environmental processes and objects and the new techniques proposed in the literature, which use the effect of low-frequency field generation when natural ionospheric current systems are modulated by powerful radio emission from ground-based transmitters. Diagnostics of internal gravity waves, electromagnetic sounding of the Earth, diagnostics of the ionospheric Alfvén resonator, and magnetosphere location are considered. It is shown that except for the magnetosphere location, all analyzed techniques are inferior to the conventional methods in complexity, information capacity, and efficiency. Under favorable geophysical and geographical conditions, an ionospheric source of SLF and ULF electromagnetic fields can provide the most effective injection of waves into the magnetosphere.