An analysis of the topside ionosphere parameters based on the long-duration Irkutsk incoherent scatter radar measurements

Ratovsky, Konstantin; Shpynev, B. G.; Oinats, Alexey; Medvedev, Andrey

doi:10.1016/j.asr.2010.06.006

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“…According to the theory of incoherent scattering first presented by Gordon in 1958 [Gordon, 1958], ISR is the only equipment which has such ability. The measured area can be covered from 60 to 2000 km, and ISR has become the most powerful groundbased tool currently for the study of ionospheric structures and kinetic processes [Liu et al, 2007;Mathews, 1984], which makes it possible to study more ionosphere phenomena [Ratovsky et al, 2010]. Incoherent scatter radars use weak signals scattered by thermal fluctuations of upper atmospheric electrons [Evans, 1969;Dougherty and Farley, 1960;Brekke et al, 1974] to detect physical parameters of the ionosphere.…”

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An effective method for incoherent scattering radar's detecting ability evaluation

Yao

Deng

2016

Radio Science

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Ionospheric incoherent scatter radar (ISR), which is used to detect ionospheric electrons and ions, generally, has megawatt class transmission power and hundred meter level antenna aperture. The crucial purpose of this detecting technology is to get ionospheric parameters by acquiring the autocorrelation function and power spectrum of the target ionospheric plasma echoes. Whereas the ISR's echoes are very weak because of the small radar cross section of its target, estimating detecting ability will be significantly instructive and meaningful for ISR system design. In this paper, we evaluate the detecting ability through signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The soft-target radar equation is deduced to be applicable to ISR, through which we use data from International Reference Ionosphere model to simulate signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of echoes, and then comparing the measured SNR from European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association and Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar with the simulation. The simulation results show good consistency with the measured SNR. For ISR, the topic of this paper is the first comparison between the calculated SNR and radar measurements; the detecting ability can be improved through increasing SNR. The effective method for ISR's detecting ability evaluation provides basis for design of radar system.

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