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Wuhan Ionospheric Oblique Backscattering Sounding System and Its Applications—A Review

For decades, high-frequency (HF) radar has played an important role in sensing the Earth’s environment. Advances in radar technology are providing opportunities to significantly improve the performance of HF radar, and to introduce more applications. This paper presents a low-power, small-size, and...

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Autores principales: Shi, Shuzhu, Yang, Guobin, Jiang, Chunhua, Zhang, Yuannong, Zhao, Zhengyu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492079/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28629157
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17061430
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author Shi, Shuzhu
Yang, Guobin
Jiang, Chunhua
Zhang, Yuannong
Zhao, Zhengyu
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description For decades, high-frequency (HF) radar has played an important role in sensing the Earth’s environment. Advances in radar technology are providing opportunities to significantly improve the performance of HF radar, and to introduce more applications. This paper presents a low-power, small-size, and multifunctional HF radar developed by the Ionospheric Laboratory of Wuhan University, referred to as the Wuhan Ionospheric Oblique Backscattering Sounding System (WIOBSS). Progress in the development of this radar is described in detail, including the basic principles of operation, the system configuration, the sounding waveforms, and the signal and data processing methods. Furthermore, its various remote sensing applications are briefly reviewed to show the good performance of this radar. Finally, some suggested solutions are given for further improvement of its performance.
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spelling pubmed-54920792017-07-03 Wuhan Ionospheric Oblique Backscattering Sounding System and Its Applications—A Review Shi, Shuzhu Yang, Guobin Jiang, Chunhua Zhang, Yuannong Zhao, Zhengyu Sensors (Basel) Review For decades, high-frequency (HF) radar has played an important role in sensing the Earth’s environment. Advances in radar technology are providing opportunities to significantly improve the performance of HF radar, and to introduce more applications. This paper presents a low-power, small-size, and multifunctional HF radar developed by the Ionospheric Laboratory of Wuhan University, referred to as the Wuhan Ionospheric Oblique Backscattering Sounding System (WIOBSS). Progress in the development of this radar is described in detail, including the basic principles of operation, the system configuration, the sounding waveforms, and the signal and data processing methods. Furthermore, its various remote sensing applications are briefly reviewed to show the good performance of this radar. Finally, some suggested solutions are given for further improvement of its performance. MDPI 2017-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5492079/ /pubmed/28629157 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17061430 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Zhang, Yuannong
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492079/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28629157
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17061430
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