An Advanced Low-Band VHF Radar for Atmospheric, Geospace, and Solar Research
Whitepaper #185 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research; infrastructure/workforce/other programmatic. Additional topics: ground-based missions/projects; solar physics; research tools and infrastructure; state […]
by Brett Isham, Jason Kooi, Namir Kassim, Joseph Helmboldt, and Wlodek Kofman
Published onJul 31, 2023
An Advanced Low-Band VHF Radar for Atmospheric, Geospace, and Solar Research
The construction of a multistatic, imaging, low-band VHF (20-80 MHz) radar observatory would allow high-resolution vector measurements of incoherent scatter from the ionosphere and coherent scatter from the neutral atmosphere through the plasmasphere, and would change the nature of what can be observed. Paired with a powerful transmitter, radar measurements of the sun would also be possible.
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