A PC-Based Signal Receiving and Processing System for Incoherent Scatter Radar

In this paper a new data acquisition and analysis method for EISCAT (European Incoherent SCAT ter ) incoherent scatter radars are presented. The system allows storing the incoherent scatter radar signal itself instead of its autocorrelation function estimates. Samples of scattered signals and transm...

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Main Authors: B. Damtie, Lehtinen, T.Nygrén
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2003
Subjects:
EISCAT
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.58.2510
http://www.telecom.net.et/~bdu/icece2003/P012.pdf
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Summary:In this paper a new data acquisition and analysis method for EISCAT (European Incoherent SCAT ter ) incoherent scatter radars are presented. The system allows storing the incoherent scatter radar signal itself instead of its autocorrelation function estimates. Samples of scattered signals and transmissions are stored in a single data stream on hard disk. This solution has great benefits; e.g. the ground clutter can be eliminated with only a small loss in statistical accuracy, and the true phase of the transmitter in phase coded experiments can be measured. In data analysis a very flexible signal processing can be applied.

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