Thermospheric Neutral Wind Measurement Using the LWA1 and the AFRL Digisonde

Abstract

We use the first station of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA1) to observe low power echoes from meteors due to illumination of meteor trails from TV or VHF radar. We built and deployed 5 Data Recorder Storage Units (DRSUs) at LWA1 and use these to collect data from the LWA1. We have collected both LWA1 beam observations and Transient Buffer Narrowband (TBN) data which is an all-dipole mode. Both of these modes have extremely high data rates up to 360 GB/hour in the case of TBN mode. This original objective was to characterize three-dimensional neutral wind patterns in 90-120 km altitude.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 26, 2014
Accession Number
ADA612722

Entities

People

  • Greg Taylor

Organizations

  • University of New Mexico

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Altitude
  • Bandwidth
  • Detection
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Frequency
  • Long Wavelengths
  • Measurement
  • New Mexico
  • Observation
  • Radio Frequency
  • Radio Frequency Interference
  • Recording Systems
  • Scattering
  • Space Sciences
  • Specular Reflection

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Astronomy/Astrophysics
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.