A note on pulse distortion by ionospheric reflection
Abstract
An expression, suitable for a small desk-top computer, is presented to calculate the time domain envelope of a rectangular pulse reflected from a sech square model ionosphere and observed at the output of a simple receiver bandpass filter. Ionospheric, source pulse, and filter parameters can be varied to estimate distortion characteristics of the received pulse.
- Publication:
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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
- Pub Date:
- October 1985
- DOI:
- 10.1109/TAP.1985.1143496
- Bibcode:
- 1985ITAP...33.1151V
- Keywords:
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- Electromagnetic Pulses;
- Ionospheric Propagation;
- Pulse Communication;
- Distortion;
- Fast Fourier Transformations;
- Ionospheric Electron Density;
- Pulse Duration;
- Reflectance;
- Communications and Radar