36 results about "Ionospheric sounding" patented technology

An MIMO (multiple input multiple output) radar technology can perform beam forming at both a transmitting end and a receiving end, particularly can emit narrow beams in different directions at the same time, and just can meet demands of a sky-wave over-the-horizon radar (OTHR) on multilayer ionospheric sounding and inhibition of relatively strong clutter. A two-ionized-layer structure is applied to an MIMO OTHR system, and aimed at a characteristic of relatively high clutter-noise ratio (CNR) caused by influence of sea clutter and ionized layers on the OTHR, a set of signal processing method is proposed and comprises adaptive optimization of a transmitted waveform with a two-step method of a mutual information theory. Simulation verification discovers that the method remarkably increases the target detection probability and resolution, so that the MIMO-OTHR can utilize multipath echoes to improve target detection and other system performances.

The invention relates to an ionospheric parameter inversion and large-scale model reconstruction method based on a wide-area distributed short-wave network. A short-wave cooperative communication signal transmitted in a network is collected synchronously; according to the signal quality received by each station, proper receiving stations are selected and signal delays between all transmitting stations and the receiving stations are estimated respectively; time delay data obtained by each receiving station are transmitted to a central station server; and then a current local ionospheric parameter is inverted in the central station server and large-scale ionospheric model reconstruction is performed accordingly. According to the invention, current ionospheric cutoff frequency, bottom heightand maximum electron concentration height parameter inversion and the upper-space large-scale ionospheric model reconstruction can be realized without any special design of an ionospheric detection device, so that lots of station construction, maintenance, management, and usage costs are saved; and the obtained ionospheric model parameters have the important application value in high-precision positioning of short-wave signals and sky-wave radar target tracking.

The invention discloses an ionized layer parametric inversion method based on AIS target indication. The method includes the steps of obtaining the target positions and movement information of offshore ships on the basis of the AIS, detecting suspected ship targets on the basis of a sky wave radar echo spectrum and through the combination with the AIS target indication area, conducting correlation, fusion and matching on the ship targets detected by radar and the ships indicated by the AIS so as to obtain the route of a radar ship target group, detecting a quasi parabolic ionized layer model required for the ship target positioning on the basis of sky wave radar backscatter sounding, establishing a mean square error equation of the route of the radar ship target group, and obtaining the optimal solution of the ionized layer parameter on the basis of the optimization solution algorithm. By means of the method, the ionized layer parameter model can be obtained without more professional ionized layer detection devices, and the number of devices and the device cost are reduced. The static and dynamic information of a large number of offshore ships can be provided through a ship automatic identification system in real time, the amount of the information serving as input data of the parametric inversion algorithm is large, the inversion accuracy and stability of the ionized layer parameter are improved, and the spatial resolution of the ionized layer parametric inversion is improved.

The invention discloses a ground-based ionospheric network monitoring method, comprising: setting the order of magnitude of horizontal spatial resolution of ionospheric detection points in the detection area; The ionospheric oblique detection stations are uniformly set at a certain distance around the station; each ionospheric detection point is located in the middle of the ionospheric vertical detection station and the ionospheric oblique detection station; The ionospheric vertical detection station sends out the signal and is reflected by the ionosphere to determine the ionospheric state parameters at each ionospheric detection point. The invention can realize the high-resolution monitoring of the ionospheric foundation in the concerned detection area by rationally arranging a plurality of ionospheric oblique detectors. Since the ionospheric oblique sounder is used as the main monitoring method, it will not have adverse effects on the human body and radio equipment, and can provide more ionospheric information.

The invention discloses a non-coherent scattering radar signal processing method based on frequency hopping and multiphase alternate codes. The method mainly solves the problems that existing non-coherent scattering radar is low in height resolution ratio, long in detection period and limited in coding mode. According to the technical scheme, the method comprises the following steps that all sets of the multiphase alternate codes are modulated respectively according to different frequencies, and radar pulses arranged in sequence without any time slot are generated and transmitted through a radar transmitter; radar echo signals are filtered respectively according to transmitting modulation frequencies so as to obtain detection data, corresponding to the same height range, of all the sets of the multiphase alternate codes, post-detection filtering is carried out on each set of coding echo signals, a self-correlation function is worked out, multi-period accumulation and fuzzy revising are carried out, and therefore the power spectral density of scattered signals of an ionized layer is worked out. The method can increase the height resolution ratio of the radar, shorten the detection period of the radar, expand the signal coding modes and be used for detection of the ionized layer.

An MIMO (multiple input multiple output) radar technology can perform beam forming at both a transmitting end and a receiving end, particularly can emit narrow beams in different directions at the same time, and just can meet demands of a sky-wave over-the-horizon radar (OTHR) on multilayer ionospheric sounding and inhibition of relatively strong clutter. A two-ionized-layer structure is applied to an MIMO OTHR system, and aimed at a characteristic of relatively high clutter-noise ratio (CNR) caused by influence of sea clutter and ionized layers on the OTHR, a set of signal processing method is proposed and comprises adaptive optimization of a transmitted waveform with a two-step method of a mutual information theory. Simulation verification discovers that the method remarkably increases the target detection probability and resolution, so that the MIMO-OTHR can utilize multipath echoes to improve target detection and other system performances.

A micro / nano-satellite for ionospheric probing is composed of an external spherical shell, antenna housings, antennas and a modular component, namely the CubeSat, wherein the outer spherical shell and the antenna housings are connected to form a spherical case of the whole satellite; the antennas are fixed to the external spherical shell and covered with the antenna housings; and the CubeSat is fixed to the center of the interior of the whole satellite through supporting rods on the external spherical shell. The micro / nano-satellite for ionospheric probing is a combination of the modular component and the customized components, is convenient to produce and machine, and has the advantages of low cost, simple structure, high universality and short production cycle. The micro / nano-satellite for ionospheric probing can probe ionized layers and the air density of atmosphere, thereby having high practicability. By the adoption of symmetrical distribution of the two omnidirectional antennas, the effect that the satellite can receive and dispatch signals in any posture is ensured, and requirements for a posture control system are reduced.

The invention discloses an ionized layer parametric inversion method based on AIS target indication. The method includes the steps of obtaining the target positions and movement information of offshore ships on the basis of the AIS, detecting suspected ship targets on the basis of a sky wave radar echo spectrum and through the combination with the AIS target indication area, conducting correlation, fusion and matching on the ship targets detected by radar and the ships indicated by the AIS so as to obtain the route of a radar ship target group, detecting a quasi parabolic ionized layer model required for the ship target positioning on the basis of sky wave radar backscatter sounding, establishing a mean square error equation of the route of the radar ship target group, and obtaining the optimal solution of the ionized layer parameter on the basis of the optimization solution algorithm. By means of the method, the ionized layer parameter model can be obtained without more professional ionized layer detection devices, and the number of devices and the device cost are reduced. The static and dynamic information of a large number of offshore ships can be provided through a ship automatic identification system in real time, the amount of the information serving as input data of the parametric inversion algorithm is large, the inversion accuracy and stability of the ionized layer parameter are improved, and the spatial resolution of the ionized layer parametric inversion is improved.

The invention discloses a sky-wave over-the-horizon radar target and ionospheric parameter joint estimation method, which belongs to the technical field of radar. The invention sets the parameter to be estimated as the joint parameter of the target and the ionosphere, uses an analytical model to convert the error of the ionosphere detection equipment into an estimation error of the target parameter, corrects the estimated parameter, and realizes joint estimation of the ionosphere and the target parameter. The invention solves the problem that the ionospheric parameter error estimation cannot be combined in the existing estimation method, enables the ionospheric error information to be effectively used, and improves the estimation accuracy.

The invention relates to ionospheric detection technology, in particular to a high-resolution vertical detection method of the ionospheric Es layer based on cross-spectrum analysis. There is a coded and modulated short-wave detection signal with a narrow bandwidth, and the effective part of the echo is intercepted, and the spectral estimation method is used for each detection of each detection frequency to perform high-resolution imaging, so as to realize the high-resolution imaging of the internal structure and motion process of the Es layer. Precision observation. This method does not require additional equipment and hardware costs, and can greatly improve the range resolution of Es layer observations. Compared with traditional coherent accumulation techniques or high-resolution imaging using multi-frequency interferometry, this method does not require a high number of repeated detections. In order to achieve energy accumulation or use multi-frequency echo data for joint operation, it has a high range resolution and at the same time improves the time resolution, which is convenient to observe the short-term drastic changes in the Es layer.

The invention discloses a top ionosphere detection space-borne MIMO radar system which belongs to the field of radar technology and compromises a complete complementary sequence generator, a pulse period delayer, a modulator, emission antennae, reception antennae, a demodulator, a pulse compression system and an electron density distribution generation system. The complete complementary sequence generator simultaneously generates N pairs of complementary sequences. The pulse period delayer alternatively inputs two complementary sequences to the modulator. N pairs of signals are modulated at Ncarrier frequencies respectively and sent out by the N emission antennae, and the echo signals are received by the N reception antennae. The demodulator demodulates signals on the N carrier frequencies. The signals are sent to the electron density distribution generation system after pulse compression to generate a two dimensional ionogram. The space-borne MIMO radar system is used for the top ionosphere detection. Compared with the prior ionosphere detector, the space-borne MIMO radar system of the invention can generate two dimensional ionograms and has very high orientation resolution and high work efficiency.