NEW INCOHERENT SCATTER RADAR MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES AND DATA ANALYSIS METHODS

New incoherent scatter radar measurement techniques and data analysis methods Department of Physical Sciences, University of Oulu, Finland. Report No. 29 (2004) This dissertation presents new incoherent scatter radar measurement techniques and data analysis methods. The measurements used in the stud...

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Main Author: Baylie Damtie
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Summary:New incoherent scatter radar measurement techniques and data analysis methods Department of Physical Sciences, University of Oulu, Finland. Report No. 29 (2004) This dissertation presents new incoherent scatter radar measurement techniques and data analysis methods. The measurements used in the study were collected by connecting a computer-based receiver to the EISCAT (European Incoherent SCATter) radar on Svalbard. This hardware consists of a spectrum analyzer, a PCI-bus-based programmable digital I/O card and a desktop computer with a large-capacity hard disk. It takes in the 70-MHz signal from the ESR (Eiscat Svalbard Radar) signal path and carries out downconversion, AD conversion, quadrature detection, and finally stores the output samples on hard disk. The effective sampling rate is 1 MHz, large enough to span all the frequency channels used in the experiment. Hence the total multichannel signal was stored instead of separate lagged products for each frequency channel, which is the procedure in