BRAMS: The Belgian RAdio Meteor Stations

Author

Lamy, H. ; Ranvier, S. ; De Keyser, Jacques ; Gamby, E. ; Calders, S.

Author_Institution

Belgian Inst. for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium

fYear

2011

fDate

13-20 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

BRAMS (Belgian RAdio Meteor Stations) is a new facility currently developed in Belgium to detect and study meteors with radio forward scattering techniques. The transmitter is a dedicated beacon and 25 receiving stations (including one interferometer) are spread all over Belgium. The characteristics of BRAMS and the scientific goals of the project will be discussed. Preliminary results for the automatic detection and counting of meteor echoes will be presented as well as initial results obtained with the interferometer. The methods planned to calculate meteoroid flux densities and trajectories of individual meteoroids will be discussed.

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; meteoroids; meteors; BRAMS facility; Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy; Belgian RAdio Meteor Stations; Belgium; automatic detection; meteor echoe counting; meteoroid flux densities; meteoroid trajectories; radio forward scattering techniques; receiving stations; transmitter beacon; Approximation algorithms; Image edge detection; Radio interferometry; Radio transmitters; Scattering; Space stations; Trajectory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, 2011 XXXth URSI

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5117-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/URSIGASS.2011.6050925

Filename

6050925