Mesospheric Wind Measurement

Abstract

This grant involves the construction of MENTOR, an RF interferometer radar to study acoustic-gravity waves in the mesopause region of the earth's atmosphere, under the Department of Defense-University Research Instrumentation Program. The subcontractor for the construction of MENTOR has completed the radar and put it in the field. All the electronics are fielded in an 8'x8'x20' shipboard container, with the antenna arrays deployed close by. The electronics consists of a 50-kW transmitter, 8 receivers, and 150 Mips of on-line computer. The radar antenna consists of a 32-Yagi antenna array configured as 16 Yagis for transmit and 16 Yagis for receive. The transmit array is deployed on one side of the shipboard container and operated as a single in-phase beam; the 16 separate Yagis for receive are sampled as 8 rows of 4 Yagis each.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 26, 1989
Accession Number
ADA205593

Entities

Organizations

  • Utah State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Antenna Arrays
  • Antennas
  • Arrays
  • Construction
  • Containers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Gravity Waves
  • Instrumentation
  • Interferometers
  • Measurement
  • Radar
  • Radar Antennas
  • Scientific Research
  • Space Sciences
  • Yagi Antennas

Readers

  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics