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G-band radar for humidity and cloud remote sensing / Ken B. Cooper in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 59 n° 2 (February 2021)  

Public [article]  inIEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing > vol 59 n° 2 (February 2021) . - pp 1106 - 1117 Titre : G-band radar for humidity and cloud remote sensing Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Ken B. Cooper, Auteur ; Richard J. Roy, Auteur ; Robert Dengler, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : pp 1106 - 1117 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image radar et applications [Termes IGN] antenne radar [Termes IGN] bruit thermique [Termes IGN] humidité de l'air [Termes IGN] modèle atmosphérique [Termes IGN] nuage [Termes IGN] rapport signal sur bruit [Termes IGN] réflectivité [Termes IGN] télédétection en hyperfréquence Résumé : (auteur) VIPR (vapor in-cloud profiling radar) is a tunable G-band radar designed for humidity and cloud remote sensing. VIPR uses all-solid-state components and operates in a frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar mode, offering a transmit power of 200–300 mW. Its typical chirp bandwidth of 10 MHz over a center-frequency tuning span of 167–174.8 GHz results in a nominal range resolution of 15 m. The radar’s measured noise figure over the transmit band is between 7.4 and 10.4 dB, depending on its frequency and hardware configuration, and its calculated antenna gain is 58 dB. These parameters mean that with typical 1 ms chirp times, single-pulse cloud reflectivities as low as −26 dBZ are detectable with unity signal-to-noise at 5 km. Experimentally, radar returns from ice clouds above 10 km in height have been observed from the ground. VIPR’s absolute sensitivity was validated using a spherical metal target in the radar antenna’s far-field, and a G-band switch has been implemented in an RF calibration loop for periodic recalibration. The radar achieves high sensitivity with thermal noise limited detection both by virtue of its low-noise RF architecture and by using a quasioptical duplexing method that preserves ultrahigh transmit/receive isolation despite operation in an FMCW mode with a single primary antenna shared by the transmitter and receiver. Numéro de notice : A2021-112 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1109/TGRS.2020.2995325 Date de publication en ligne : 04/06/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2020.2995325 Format de la ressource électronique : url article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=96916 [article]