An adaptive moments estimation technique applied to MST radar echoes
An adaptive moments estimation technique applied to MST radar echoes
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应用于MST雷达回波的自适应矩估计技术
DOI:
10.1175/jtech1696.1
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发表时间:
2005
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
C. Pan
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作者:
V. K. Anandan;P. Balamuralidhar;P. Rao;A. Jain;C. Pan
Abstract An adaptive spectral moments estimation technique has been developed for analyzing the Doppler spectra of the mesosphere–stratosphere–troposphere (MST) radar signals. The technique, implemented with the MST radar at Gadanki (13.5°N, 79°E), is based on certain criteria, set up for the Doppler window, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and wind shear parameters, which are used to adaptively track the signal in the range–Doppler spectral frame. Two cases of radar data, one for low and the other for high SNR conditions, have been analyzed and the results are compared with those from the conventional method based on the strongest peak detection in each range gate. The results clearly demonstrate that by using the adaptive method the height coverage can be considerably enhanced compared to the conventional method. For the low SNR case, the height coverage for the adaptive and conventional methods is about 22 and 11 km, respectively; the corresponding heights for the high SNR case are 24 and 13 km. To validat...