MIDAS-W: a workstation-based incoherent scatter radar data acquisition system

MIDAS-W: A Workstation-based Incoherent Scatter Radar Data Acquisition System

The Millstone Hill Incoherent Scatter Data Acquisition System (MIDAS) is based on an abstract model of an incoherent scatter radar. This model is implemented in a hierarchical software system, which serves to isolate hardware and low-level software implementation details from higher levels of the system. Inherent in this is the idea that implementation details can easily be changed in response ...

New Incoherent Scatter Radar Measurement Techniques and Data Analysis Methods

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 ...

An FPGA-based data acquisition system for a 95 GHz W-band radar

RADAR Michael Petronino, Ray Bambha, James Carswell, and Wayne Burleson Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Knowles Engineering Building, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003 T: (413) 545-4635, F: (413) 545-4652, [email protected] ABSTRACT We describe a 95 GHz radar for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The radar measures vertical pro les of the re e...

Incoherent Scatter Radar — Spectral Signal Model and Ionospheric Applications

Meteoric dust effects on D-region incoherent scatter radar spectra

We extend the incoherent backscatter radar equation for the weakly ionized, collision-dominated case to include polydisperse charged dust, using the fluid-equation approach. Calculations with this equation show that the main effect of charged dust on the radar Doppler spectrum is to narrow it, except in the case of very small, negatively charged dust, which widens the spectrum. The results are ...