• DocumentCode
    3305186
  • Title

    CUTLASS: a new HF auroral radar

  • Author

    Jones, T.B. ; Thomas, E.C.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Leicester Univ., UK
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    35388
  • Firstpage
    42522
  • Lastpage
    42526
  • Abstract
    A new bistatic HF auroral radar system (Collaborative UK Twin Located Auroral Sounding System: CUTLASS) has been constructed and deployed at sites in Finland and Iceland. The radar has a viewing area of 3×106 km2, approximately the size of Western Europe, and can achieve a spatial resolution of about 50×50 km. The radars are located so that observations can be made both in the auroral zone ionosphere and also well into the polar cap region. The fields of view cover the highly instrumented area of Northern Scandinavia, including the fields of view of the incoherent scatter radars EISCAT and ESR
  • Keywords
    remote sensing by radar; 8 to 20 MHz; CUTLASS; Collaborative UK Twin Located Auroral Sounding System; Finland; Iceland; auroral zone ionosphere; bistatic HF auroral radar system; polar cap region; spatial resolution; viewing area;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Remote Sensing of the Propagation Environment (Digest No: 1996/221), IEE Colloquium on
  • Conference_Location
    London
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1049/ic:19961179
  • Filename
    645956
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3305186