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The plot shows the range extent for the CP experiments used at different radars.


The "radar efficiency" is a measure of how much of the power of the radar is used at different ranges, 1 being that the maximum RF duty cycle is used. There are other parameters as well which are important for an experiment, such as range, time and spectral resolution.

For the more advanced user, there are now possibilities to make new data handling/DSP routines which are loaded on demand from the decodump process.

The tables below indicate the basic parameters of each experiment shown above for all the radar systems:

Mainland UHF / VHF System
Experiment nameDish Pulses (µs)Sampling rate (µs)Resolution (km)Ranges (km)Plasma lineTime resolution (s)
tau2plUHFtwo 16x36 AC12 1.8 - 5.450 - 7021x8x170 kHz5
tau1UHFtwo 16x60 AC12 1.8 - 954 - 1361 -5
tau1VHFtwo 16x72 AC24 4 - 1161 - 2014 -5
tau8VHFtwo 16x84 AC14 2 - 12.561 - 1317 1x1x1.7 MHz5
mandaUHF/VHF64x3 AC3 0.4558.5 - 513 -6
arc1UHF64x6 AC6 0.996 - 422 -0.44




Svalbard Radar
Experiment nameDish Pulses (µs)Sampling rate (µs)Resolution (km)Ranges (km)Plasma lineTime resolution (s)
steffesingle, switchable16x30 + 16x105 AC15 2.2 - 1636 - 10342x2x1.7 MHzHz6
tau0single, switchabletwo 16x60 AC20 3 - 958 - 1304 -6.4
mandasingle59x5 AC5 0.7560 - 499 -4
arc_slicesingle, switchable64x6 AC6 0.985 - 481 -0.5
hildedual16x32 + 16x96 AC
two 16x60 AC
16
20
2.4 - 14
3 - 9
36 - 965
58 - 1304
-5.1
tau7single, switchable16x120 AC5 1 - 1840 - 1500 2x2.5 MHz6
Created by lisa
Last modified 2007-06-29 15:08