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Proceedings with Extended Abstracts (single PDF file) - Radio ...

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further experimental test of the STARS low sensitivity to the both ground clutter and hardtargets <strong>with</strong> the Chung-Li radar (CLR).Figure 1. The return signal power during the CLR experiment on 19 June 2002.The CLR is located at the campus of the National Central University (NCU) of Chung-Li,Taiwan at 24.58 o N and 121.0 o E and is operated by the Center for Space and Remote SensingResearch and the Department of Atmospheric Physics of the NCU. CLR is a dual-mode radar<strong>with</strong> the operational frequency 52 MHz; it allows the application of a five-beam DopplerBeam Swinging (DBS) mode as well as a spaced antenna mode <strong>with</strong> three separate antennamodules. Each of these modules consists of 64 Yagis <strong>with</strong> the beam width of a <strong>single</strong> moduleof 7.5 o , and that of the combined three modules of 5 o ; see Röttger et al. (1990) for details.Figure 2. Time series of the easterly U and northerly V mean winds on 19 June 2002at a height above the radar 3.45 km (left column) and 7.05 km (right column).Red crosses, DBS; blue bullets, STARS; green circles, FCA.The data collection for comparing SA techniques <strong>with</strong> DBS was executed on 19 June 2002.The radar was operated 8.2 min. in the SA mode <strong>with</strong> three separate receiving modules, then1.3 min. in the DBS mode <strong>with</strong> only one receiving module; the sequence was continuouslyrepeated for approximately 4.5 hours. Both in DBS and SA modes, the radar pulse repetitionfrequency was 3,333 Hz, and the range resolution and the gate separation were 300 m. At thestandard CLR operations, three modules are used for a transmission. Due to temporal defectsin the radar hardware, only one module was used in the experiment for the transmission inboth DBS and SA modes. The transmitted beam width was about 1.5 times larger, and theside lobes were much wider and stronger than those in the standard operations. Therefore, thereceived signals were more heavily affected by ground clutter and hard targets such asairplanes. CLR is located quite close to the airplane flight routes in the vicinity of the Chan231

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