This study demonstrates the ability of a portable X-band Doppler weather radar (XDR) to measure Doppler velocity (Vd). Existing portable X-band weather radars are housed in a container and hence have to be carried by a truck. Therefore they have limitations in their installation places. For installations at small areas where the existing X-band weather radars cannot be installed (e.g., rooftop area of small building), XDR is designed to be carried by a cart. Components of the outdoor unit (a parabolic antenna with a diameter of 1.2 m, magnetron transmitter, and radio frequency (RF) and intermediate frequency (IF) analog components) are housed in a compact body with a weight less than 300 kg. The radar operation, IF digital processing, and data storage are carried out by a desktop computer having a commercial IF digital receiver. In order to attain the required portability and reduced purchase and running costs, XDR uses a magnetron transmitter. Because XDR is the first that utilizes an IF digital receiver for the signal processing specific to magnetron transmitters (i.e., the phase correction of received signals due to the randomness of the transmitted pulse phase), Vd measured by XDR (hereafter VdXDR) was assessed. Using the dataset collected from 25 to 26 October 2009 at the Shigaraki MU Observatory (34
Masayuki K. YAMAMOTO
Tomoaki MEGA
Nobuyuki IKENO
Toyoshi SHIMOMAI
Hiroyuki HASHIGUCHI
Mamoru YAMAMOTO
Masahisa NAKAZATO
Takuya TAJIRI
Takashi ICHIYAMA
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Masayuki K. YAMAMOTO, Tomoaki MEGA, Nobuyuki IKENO, Toyoshi SHIMOMAI, Hiroyuki HASHIGUCHI, Mamoru YAMAMOTO, Masahisa NAKAZATO, Takuya TAJIRI, Takashi ICHIYAMA, "Doppler Velocity Measurement of Portable X-Band Weather Radar Equipped with Magnetron Transmitter and IF Digital Receiver" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications,
vol. E94-B, no. 6, pp. 1716-1724, June 2011, doi: 10.1587/transcom.E94.B.1716.
Abstract: This study demonstrates the ability of a portable X-band Doppler weather radar (XDR) to measure Doppler velocity (Vd). Existing portable X-band weather radars are housed in a container and hence have to be carried by a truck. Therefore they have limitations in their installation places. For installations at small areas where the existing X-band weather radars cannot be installed (e.g., rooftop area of small building), XDR is designed to be carried by a cart. Components of the outdoor unit (a parabolic antenna with a diameter of 1.2 m, magnetron transmitter, and radio frequency (RF) and intermediate frequency (IF) analog components) are housed in a compact body with a weight less than 300 kg. The radar operation, IF digital processing, and data storage are carried out by a desktop computer having a commercial IF digital receiver. In order to attain the required portability and reduced purchase and running costs, XDR uses a magnetron transmitter. Because XDR is the first that utilizes an IF digital receiver for the signal processing specific to magnetron transmitters (i.e., the phase correction of received signals due to the randomness of the transmitted pulse phase), Vd measured by XDR (hereafter VdXDR) was assessed. Using the dataset collected from 25 to 26 October 2009 at the Shigaraki MU Observatory (34
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