A HIGH DUTY FACTOR 35-GHz PULSE COMPRESSION WEATHER RADAR AND RAINFALL OBSERVATION

被引:2
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作者
Lee, Hoon [1 ]
Kim, Yong-Hoon [1 ]
机构
[1] Gwangju Inst Sci & Technol, Sch Informat & Mechatron, Kwangju 500712, South Korea
关键词
weather radar; millimeter wave radar; pulse compression; nonlinear waveform;
D O I
10.1002/mop.26026
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A new millimeter wavelength vertical weather radar system has been developed. It uses pulse compression technique and has the characteristics of more than half of duty factor with 5 W solid-state power amplifier. Nonlinear FM waveforms based on Blackmanharris function at transmitter are generated for range sidelobe suppression. We successfully obtained equivalent radar reflectivity and Doppler mean velocity and these were compared with MRR at moderate rain events for the system verification. (C) 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 53:1544-1547, 2011; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com. DOI 10.1002/mop.26026
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页码:1544 / 1547
页数:5
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