A New Approach to Lightweight Radar Altimeters

Nadav Levanon; Ferrel G. Stremler; Verner E. Suomi

doi:10.1109/PROC.1974.9518

A New Approach to Lightweight Radar Altimeters

Nadav Levanon, Ferrel G. Stremler, Verner E. Suomi

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Test results and key principles are given for a radar altimeter designed for meteorological balloons. The instrument, which weighs 160 g and consumes 0.7 W, will fill a gap in meteorological sensing using balloons—an area where pressure altitude was formerly the prevailing reference. The instrument is basically a delay-lock radar utilizing a superregenerative RF stage. Long-term absolute accuracy of ± 10 m and short-term stability of better than 2 m rms were measured at altitudes of 20 km.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	784-792
Number of pages	9
Journal	Proceedings of the IEEE
Volume	62
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PROC.1974.9518
State	Published - Jun 1974
Externally published	Yes

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