CAREER: Development of a Distributed, Multistatic Meteor Radar System

流星雷达系统用于通过分析陨石烧蚀残留物的镜面反射来监测中层大气中的水平风，该系统进行了升级，以吸收新的数字接收器和多频发射器技术。此外，通过建立可供审查的统一透明算法，消除了对派生风的准确性的挥之不去的困惑，这些困惑源于专有分析算法。这些新技术流星雷达的设计和建造为低成本的雷达系统统一组网和80公里至100公里的中层大气动力学的广泛空间覆盖铺平了道路。本科生和研究生参与该项目产生了一批新的专业射频工程师和遥感雷达操作员。这一群体将研究的影响从其大气学核心扩大到监视、资源勘探和安全。

Meteor radar systems, used to monitor horizontal winds in the middle atmosphere by analysis of specular reflections from meteoric ablation remnants, are upgraded to assimilate new digital receiver and multi-frequency transmitter technologies. In addition, lingering confusion about the veracity of the derived winds, stemming from proprietary analysis algorithms, is eradicated by establishment of unified transparent algorithms available for review. The design and construction of these new-technology meteor radars paves the way for low-cost unified networks of the radar systems, and broad spatial coverage of middle atmosphere dynamics between 80 km and 100 km. Undergraduate and graduate student participation in the project generates a new population of expert RF engineers and remote sensing radar operators. That population broadens the research impact from its Aeronomy core to surveillance, resource exploration, and security.