First spaceborne demonstration of BeiDou-3 signals for GNSS reflectometry from CYGNSS constellation

The full constellation of Chinese Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) BeiDou-3 has been deployed completely and started fully operational service. In addition to providing global Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) services, the BeiDou-3 satellites transmissions can also be used as the sources of illumination for Earth Observation (EO) with a bistatic radar configuration. This innovative EO concept, known as GNSS reflectometry (GNSS-R), allows to measure the Earth surface characteristics at high resolution via the reflected L-band radar signals collected by a constellation of small, low cost and low Earth orbiting satellites. For the first time in orbit, earth reflected BeiDou-3 signal has been detected from the limited sets of raw data collected by the NASA’s Cyclone GNSS (CYGNSS) constellation. The feasibility of spaceborne BeiDou-3 reflections on two typical applications, including sea surface wind and flooding inundation detection, has been demonstrated. The methodology and results give new strength to the prospect of new spaceborne GNSS-R instruments and missions, which can make multi-GNSS reflectometry observations available to better capture rapidly changing weather systems at better spatio-temporal scales.     

Ka频段大口径测控天线无人机校相方法设计与验证

面向Ka频段航天测控设备天线标校工程应用需求,分析了大口径测控天线相位校准方法原理,论证设计了轻量化、模块化的组合式测控应答机无人机装载模式,提出了基于无人机的S频段天线自跟踪叠加偏置进行Ka频段天线快速校相的方法,并进行了跟踪精度分析。计算了在不同地面测控天线口径下进行相位标校的链路余量,规划了无人机飞行航路和试验步骤,并进行了Ka频段天线快速校相、电轴一致性测试试验,每次相位标校得出的交叉耦合和灵敏度系数指标均满足天线对无人机信标的闭环自跟踪要求。结果表明,基于无人机平台的大口径测控天线相位校准方法能够为Ka频段测控设备标校提供一种新的手段,具有良好的工程应用前景。     

Examining the use of the NeQuick bottomside and topside parameterizations at high latitudes

An examination of the high latitude performance of the bottomside and topside F-layer parameterizations of the NeQuick electron density model is presented using measurements from high latitude ionosonde and Incoherent Scatter Radar (ISR) facilities.For the bottomside, we present a comparison between modeled and measured B2Bot thickness parameter. In this comparison, it is seen that the use of the NeQuick parameterization at high latitudes results in significantly underestimated bottomside thicknesses, regularly exceeding 50%. We show that these errors can be attributed to two main issues in the NeQuick parameterization:(1) through the relationship relating foF2 and M3000F2 to the maximum derivative of F2 electron density, which is used to derive the bottomside thickness, and (2) through a fundamental inability of a constant thickness parameter, semi-Epstein shape function to fit the curvature of the high latitude F-region electron density profile.For the topside, a comparison is undertaken between the NeQuick topside thickness parameterization, using measured and CCIR-modeled ionospheric parameters, and that derived from fitting the NeQuick topside function to Incoherent Scatter Radar-measured topside electron density profiles. Through this comparison, we show that using CCIR-derived foF2 and M3000F2, used in both the NeQuick and IRI, results in significantly underestimated topside thickness during summer periods, overestimated thickness during winter periods, and an overall tendency to underestimate diurnal, seasonal, and solar cycle variability. These issues see no improvement through the use of measured foF2 and M(3000)F2 values. Such measured parameters result in a tendency for the parametrization to produce a declining trend in topside thickness with increasing solar activity, to produce damped seasonal variations, and to produce significantly overestimated topside thickness during winter periods.     

Seasonal,annual, and interannual variability in MLT quasi-two-day waves over the low-latitude region Kolhapur (16.8°N; 74.2°E)

This study presents the quasi-two-day wave (Q2DW) characteristics of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) region obtained by taking hourly mean values of horizontal wind velocities for 4? years (August 2013–July 2017) through continuous measurements using a medium-frequency (MF) radar (operating frequency – 1.98?MHz) located at the low-latitude Indian station Kolhapur (16.8°N; 74.2°E). The MF radar located at Kolhapur was upgraded in 2013, and these results of Q2DW have been reported for the first time after upgrading. The present study investigated variability in seasonal, annual, interannual, and solar indices of Q2DWs traveling in zonal (EW) and meridional (NS) components in the MLT region. The Q2DW activity is observed to be stronger during austral summer (January–February) (EW?=?～5?m/s and NS?=?～8–10?m/s) than during boreal summer (June–July) (EW = ～5 m/s and NS = ～6–8?m/s). The Q2DW amplitudes are larger in the meridional component than in the zonal one. A strong semiannual oscillation (SAO) has been observed in Q2DWs, with peak during January–February and June–July. In addition, small enhancement is seen in meridional Q2DW in October (～5–6?m/s). It is observed that the entire spectrum (40–60?h) measured between 86 and 94?km contributes to the SAO amplitudes during January–February and June–July, whereas the waves measured between 42?h and 52?h contribute to enhancement in October similar to that reported elsewhere. In general, the Q2DW amplitude shows large interannual variability. The easterlies developed in the global circulation model in Northern hemisphere during May intensify up to around summer solstice. Q2DW activity peaks during westerly shear zone and intensifies with time at a lower thermospheric altitude (above 90?km). Small positive correlations (r?=?0.2 for sunspot number and r?=?0.1 for 10.7?cm solar flux) have been observed between Q2DW amplitudes and solar activity.     

相控阵雷达长时跟踪波束调度与波形优化策略

针对相控阵雷达多目标跟踪波束调度和波形参数优化控制的问题，本文提出了一种基于马尔可夫决策过程（MDP）的相控阵雷达跟踪波束调度与波形参数优化策略，该方法以无迹卡尔曼滤波（UKF）算法为基础来估计目标的状态。首先将本文的序列决策问题建模为马尔可夫决策过程，定义了资源的效费比和长期回报率，然后与当前实际跟踪误差综合考虑作为MDP的回报函数，进而给出了调度的优化模型，最后将长时决策问题转化为动态规划算法结构进行求解，并且提出了一种并行混合遗传粒子群优化算法来求解各决策时刻的最优策略。仿真结果表明了长时策略的先进性以及寻优算法的优越性，与传统的短时策略相比，跟踪精度可提高11.17%。     

基于变参数广义结构的距离扩展目标检测方法

针对特定杂波背景下的最优或次优检测器结构难以适应过渡杂波环境的问题，首先，给出基于变参数广义结构的距离扩展目标检测器，通过调整参数来适应杂波特性。其次，确定检测器最佳参数的经验公式，经验公式符合数值结果。最后，利用仿真试验分析检测器的检测性能。仿真结果表明，在介于高斯和复合高斯杂波之间的过渡环境中，提出的检测器比现有检测器具有更加优异的目标检测性能，对杂波非高斯程度时空渐变性具有较强的适应能力。     

The evaluation of damped Newton variational ocean wind retrieval method

This paper researches on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ocean wind retrieval approach, evaluates the method of Damped Newton VARiational method (DNVAR) and the direct method (DIRECT) using two years’ real SAR data and different background winds. Experiments are carried out using SENTINEL-1 SAR information as observation, National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) buoy data as in-situ data, Global Forecast System (GFS), Advanced SCATterometer (ASCAT), WindSAT, and Cross-Calibrated Multi-Platform (CCMP) wind products as background data. Thousands of match-ups are extracted. Results show that DNVAR can improve the wind field accuracy when the background data is ASCAT and CCMP. Especially, DNVAR wind speed results are much better than the official product of SENTINEL-1 wind data. The background data is crucial to the wind field retrieval results, so high accuracy of background data could lead to high accuracy results.     

基于星上实时信号处理机的Chirp Scaling算法实现方法

基于改进的Chirp Scaling算法,提出了一种适用于星上实时信号处理机的高效成像处理实现方法,其核心思想也可应用于其它高分辨率星载SAR的精确成像算法.首先介绍了实时信号处理机的结构,分析了数据处理粒度及其并行流水处理结构.在此基础上,针对单个粒度的成像处理重新设计了算法流程,提出了一种高效的实现方法.利用实时信号处理机,对仿真的回波数据进行了成像处理实验,结果表明:在41?s内能够完成成像处理,成像处理速度和图像质量满足系统设计要求,从而验证了该方法的有效性.     

面向GPU快速处理的地面材质数据压缩方法 陆巍巍 1,徐涛2,徐珂文 1

为解决雷达图像仿真中海量地面材质数据的存储和加载问题,采用基于自适应最大行程长度编码和修正 偶对的压缩算法进行材质数据的压缩,从而有效地减少了数据的存储量,消除数据传输的瓶颈,提高了数据传输的 吞吐能力。压缩算法面向 GPU快速处理,得到压缩数据适用于 GPU进行快速解压。     

基于贝叶斯网络的末制导雷达模糊可靠性分析

弹载末制导雷达可靠性多含不确定性与模糊性因素影响,且其具有样本量小、可靠性高等特点,传统可靠性评估方法难以适用。提出了一种基于贝叶斯网络的模糊可靠性分析方法,以某型导弹末制导雷达系统的为具体研究对象,对其进行可靠性分析,验证了方法的有效性。