HF-OTH Skywave Radar: A Method for Peak Power Evaluation

Author

Capria, Amerigo ; Berizzi, Fabrizio ; Soleti, Rocco ; Mese, E.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Pisa, Pisa

fYear

2006

fDate

24-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of peak power evaluation in HF OTH skywave radar. A wide number of factors affect the performance of such systems, specifically ionospheric propagation and absorption losses, as well as external radio noise interferences. A normalized version of the signal to noise ratio (SNR_N) has been introduced in order to evaluate the power requirements over a wide range of environmental conditions. Finally, this paper attempts to provide a method for evaluating the peak power values required in OTH radar systems and also some useful project criteria.

Keywords

HF radio propagation; electromagnetic interference; ionospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; remote sensing by radar; HF-OTH sky wave radar; absorption losses; external radio noise interference; ionospheric propagation; peak power evaluation; signal to noise ratio; Frequency; Hafnium; Interference; Ionosphere; Predictive models; Propagation losses; Radar remote sensing; Radar signal processing; Surveillance; Working environment noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Symposium, 2006. IRS 2006. International

Conference_Location

Krakow

Print_ISBN

978-83-7207-621-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IRS.2006.4338048

Filename

4338048