Title
Spectral Analysis of Incoherent Scatter Radar Signals in Faraday/Double Pulse Experiments at the Jicamarca Radio Observatory
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
The Jicamarca incoherent scatter radar can be operated in different modes to measure the main physical parameters of the equatorial ionosphere. One of these modes is the Faraday/Double Pulse experiment that was designed to estimate F -region plasma densities and electron/ion temperatures by pointing the Jicamarca antenna beam off-perpendicular to the geomagnetic field. For several years, the data processing for this mode was performed in time domain (correlation analysis), but sometimes the data is contaminated with frequency interference and other unwanted signals that are not easy to remove. To obtain better results, a spectral analysis procedure for this mode has been implemented in Signal Chain, a python-based radar signal processing library developed at the Jicamarca Radio Observatory. Signal Chain includes algorithms for interference and clutter removal to clean the spectral data before estimating the geophysical parameters. The procedure applies an outlier removal algorithm before calculating incoherently averaged power spectra. This algorithm, based on the Hildebrand-Sekhon method, is applied to sequences of spectral data for each frequency bin. Then, the DC clutter from the self- and cross-spectra is removed as a second step in the cleaning process. In this work, we present the results obtained with the spectral analysis procedure applied to the the FaradaylDouble Pulse experiment and compared the electron densities estimated with this method with the ones obtained with the standard correlation analysis.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85125186827
PubMed ID
ISBN
9781665405737
Source
2021 IEEE International Conference on Aerospace and Signal Processing, INCAS 2021
Sponsor(s)
The Jicamarca Radio Observatory is a scientific facility of the Instituto Geofisico del Peru operated with support from the NSF AGS-1732209 through Cornell University. We also thank the support of Ciencia Internacional, a peruvian non-profit civil association that supports the operation of the Jicamarca Radio Observatory.
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