Implementation of polarization diversity pulse-pair technique using airborne W-band radar

Wolde, Mengistu; Battaglia, Alessandro; Nguyen, Cuong; Pazmany, Andrew L.; Illingworth, Anthony

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-253-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-253-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-253-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

Research article

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15 Jan 2019

Research article |

| 15 Jan 2019

Implementation of polarization diversity pulse-pair technique using airborne W-band radar

Mengistu Wolde, Alessandro Battaglia, Cuong Nguyen, Andrew L. Pazmany, and Anthony Illingworth

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RC1: 'Review comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 03 Oct 2018
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Short summary

This paper presents an implementation of polarization diversity pulse-pair processing (PDPP) on the National Research Council of Canada airborne W-band radar (NAW) system. A description of the NAW PDPP pulsing schemes and an analysis of comprehensive airborne data collected in diverse weather conditions in Canada is presented. The analysis shows a successful airborne measurement of Doppler velocity exceeding 100 m s⁻¹ using PDPP approach, the first such measurement from a moving platform.