Signal Processing for Cloud Studies with the NRL High Power Millimeter Wave WARLOC Radar

Abstract

The WARLOC radar, under final construction at NRL, will be used in part to study cloud dynamics. This radar has at least 3 orders of magnitude more sensitivity than other existing cloud radars at millimeter wavelength. As such it can produce a greatly enhanced image of a cloud. Initial studies will focus on enhanced range resolution in the cloud. This memo outlines the statistics of cloud radar returns as well as the data processing schemes that will be used for enhanced range resolution. these are the use of short radar pulses, the use of pulse compression with a frequency-chirped waveform, and the use of stretch processing for very fine range resolution over a limited region of the cloud.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 30, 2001
Accession Number
ADA390129

Entities

People

  • Arne Fliflet
  • Wallace M. Manheimer

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Compression
  • Data Processing
  • Detectors
  • Doppler Effect
  • Frequency
  • Image Processing
  • Matched Filters
  • Millimeter Waves
  • Pulse Compression
  • Radar
  • Radar Pulses
  • Radar Signals
  • Scattering
  • Short Wavelengths
  • Signal Processing
  • Waveforms
  • Waves

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • 5G
  • 5G - Internet of Things