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Specifications Of Indian MST Radar | |
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Location
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Gadanki ( 36 km from Tirupati on Chittoor Road )
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Geographic
Coordinates
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13 deg 27' 34" N, 79deg 10' 34" E, 375 m above MSL
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Frequency
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53 MHz
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Peak
Power Aperture Product
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3
x 1010 Wm 2
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Peak
Power
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2.5
MW
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Duty
Ratio
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Up
to 2.5% depending on wave form
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Antenna
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Phased array with 1024 crossed Yagi elements
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Effective
Aperture
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1.25
x 104m 2
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Beam
Width
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3 deg
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Beam
Directions
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1degree
step in north south and east west plane maximum up to 20 degree
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Pulse
Width
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1-
64 microsec
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PRF
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62.5
Hz - 8 KHz
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Maximum Range Resolution |
150
m ( for 1 microsec pulse width or baud length )
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Mode
of Operation
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MST
mode / Coherent ionospheric mode
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Maximum
number of range bins
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512 *
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Maximum
number of FFT points
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1024 *
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Number
of coherent integration
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Limited to coherence time of the medium
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Typical
velocity resolution
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0.1 m/s
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Typical
time resolution
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80 sec
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Operating
system of computer :-NT
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Windows
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Data
Storage
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Hard disk and CD ROM
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Off-line
data processing
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Limited facility available at NMRF and at UGC - SV University Centre
for MST Radar Applications configured around pentium system with user
terminals
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Display
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Colour
Graphics CRT
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Hard
Copy
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Dotmatrix/Laser
printer
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Radar
Controller
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PC - AT featuring programmable specifications file ( ESF ) under Windows-NT
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| Computer System | Pentium PC- AT** | |
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Product of rangebin and number of FFT points should
be less than 512 * 1024 ** Pentium III PC-AT with DSP based data acquisition and processing system. |
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Block diagram of Indian MST Radar | |