HF Electron Density Measurements under Project BIRDSEED

Abstract

The report describes the experiment plan, equipment and data collection and reduction procedures used in the RADC HF sounding experiment carried out under AEC Project BIRDSEED. This experiment was designed to measure the electron density produced by high altitude barium releases. Time histories of the electron density produced by releases SAPSUCKER and TITMOUSE are presented. They are of an order of magnitude smaller in magnitude than produced by various releases of comparable size. They also show a different characteristic shape.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0731157

Entities

People

  • Frederick C. Wilson
  • Richard A. Schneible

Organizations

  • Rome Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Altitude
  • Birds
  • Data Reduction
  • Distributed Amplifiers
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Frequency
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • High Altitude
  • Instrumentation
  • Ionograms
  • Ionosondes
  • Ionosphere
  • Measurement
  • Procurement

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Software Engineering
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics