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Radar Altimeter Echo-Signal Analytical Model

Abstract

To design and analyze signal processing procedures in the onboard receiver of a space-based altimeter an analytical echo-signal model is desirable which combines compactness with acceptable accuracy of presenting average return power dependency on the measured parameters. On the same premises as for the popular Brown’s model and for the scenario of a sharp antenna beam the expression is proposed linking the mean return power profile to parameters to be measured: orbit altitude, significant wave height and antenna boresight angle. Only the “ready” functions enter the equation obtained, so that no numerical integration is necessary. The model proposed is feasible to optimize echo-signal search and tracking algorithms as well as to evaluate the potential accuracy of joint estimate of the abovementioned parameters.

About the Authors

D. S. Borovitsky
JSC "Russian Institute of Radionavigation and Time"
Russian Federation
Ph.D. in Engineering (2016), leading research fellow


A. E. Zhesterev
JSC "Russian Institute of Radionavigation and Time"
Russian Federation
Ph.D. in Engineering (1982), chief of the department


V. P. Ipatov
Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI"
Russian Federation
D.Sc. in Engineering (1983), Professor (1985) of the Department of Radio Engineering Systems


R. M. Mamchur
Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI"
Russian Federation
Master of Science in Radio Engineering (2015), postgraduate student and assistant of the Department of Radio Engineering Systems


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Borovitsky D.S., Zhesterev A.E., Ipatov V.P., Mamchur R.M. Radar Altimeter Echo-Signal Analytical Model. Journal of the Russian Universities. Radioelectronics. 2017;(3):39-45. (In Russ.)

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