A new modulation principle for incoherent scatter measurements
Abstract
A new method for measuring the ionosphere plasma autocorrelation function with an incoherent scatter radar is described. It is shown that this method can be used in similar situations where multipulse methods were previously used . A simple explanation of the method and a precise definition based on ambiguity functions are given. Computational algorithms are discussed. It is shown the present algorithms can be modified in several ways, so that this method can be implemented.
- Publication:
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In Swedish Inst. for Space Physics
- Pub Date:
- September 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990sisp.rept.....L
- Keywords:
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- Autocorrelation;
- Incoherent Scatter Radar;
- Ionospheric Composition;
- Modulation;
- Plasmas (Physics);
- Radar Measurement;
- Signal Processing;
- Algorithms;
- Ambiguity;
- Coding;
- Computation;
- Walsh Function;
- Geophysics