Accession Number:

AD0785824

Title:

A Multipulse Correlator for the Chatanika Radar.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept. no. 2, Nov 72-Dec 73,

Corporate Author:

STANFORD RESEARCH INST MENLO PARK CALIF

Personal Author(s):

• Rino,Charles L.
• Burch,G. Howard
• Baron,Murray J.
• de la Beaujardiere,Odile

Report Date:

1974-02-01

Pagination or Media Count:

102.0

Abstract:

This report describes the theory and operation of a multipulse correlator for the DNA 617 radar now located at Chatanika, Alaska. The hardware correlator is of a novel design that utilizes patch-wire programming to select the particular lags that are to be computed. The unit can deliver as many as 40 8-bit-by-8-bit signed products every 20 micrometers, at any of 48 3-km range gates that are specified under computer control. Modified author abstract

Descriptors:

• *Ionosphere
• *Radar signals
• Correlators
• Incoherent scattering
• Electron density
• Ion density
• Data processing
• Alaska

Subject Categories:

• Atmospheric Physics
• Active and Passive Radar Detection and Equipment

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE