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Indian MST radar 1. System description and sample vector wind measurements in ST mode
Author(s) -
Rao P. B.,
Jain A. R.,
Kishore P.,
Balamuralidhar P.,
Damle S. H.,
Viswanathan G.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
radio science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1944-799X
pISSN - 0048-6604
DOI - 10.1029/95rs00787
Subject(s) - remote sensing , mode (computer interface) , radar , synthetic aperture radar , antenna (radio) , aperture (computer memory) , sample (material) , phased array , power (physics) , 3d radar , radar imaging , continuous wave radar , optics , computer science , physics , telecommunications , geology , acoustics , thermodynamics , operating system , quantum mechanics
An MST radar operating at 53 MHz with an average power aperture product of 7 × 10 8 W m 2 has been established at Gadanki (13.5°N, 79.2°E), India. The radar development has been accomplished in two phases. In the first phase it was commissioned in ST mode using a partial system comprising one quarter (16 × 16)of the Yagi antenna array and 16 driver units of the transmitters providing an average power aperture product of 4.8 × 10 6 W m 2 . In this part we present the radar system description, including off‐line data processing, and some sample high‐resolution vector wind measurements made in ST mode operation.