Coded continuous wave meteor radar

Vierinen, Juha; Chau, Jorge L.; Pfeffer, Nico; Clahsen, Matthias; Stober, Gunter

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-829-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-829-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-829-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

Research article

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03 Mar 2016

Research article |

| 03 Mar 2016

Coded continuous wave meteor radar

Juha Vierinen, Jorge L. Chau, Nico Pfeffer, Matthias Clahsen, and Gunter Stober

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Final revised paper (published on 03 Mar 2016)
Preprint (discussion started on 30 Jul 2015)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C2883: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Sep 2015
- AC C4517: 'response', Juha Vierinen, 28 Dec 2015
  - EC C4937: 'resolution', Michael Nicolls, 18 Jan 2016
    - AC C4945: 'Height and angular resolution', Juha Vierinen, 18 Jan 2016
RC C3842: 'Referee Comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 13 Nov 2015
- AC C4434: 'response', Juha Vierinen, 21 Dec 2015

Short summary

This paper describes the use of pseudorandom coded continuous wave radar transmissions for meteor radar. This avoids range-aliased echoes, maximizes pulse compression gain, is less susceptible to RFI, allows time resolution to be changed flexibly, and enables multiple transmitters to operate on the same frequency without interfering each other. These features make the radar well suited for multi-static meteor radar networks. We show results from a measurement campaign to demonstrate the method.