Detection of Space Debris by means of Atmospheric radar
No Thumbnail Available
Date
2006-06
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Space debris, which are resulted from space activities among other things, are potentialproblems
for the on going space science and development of space technology. A few
alternatives in measuring, detecting, tracking and imaging space debris are there. Atmospheric
signals contain signals scattered from space debris on top of signals scattered
from the atmosphere. This thesis investigates how one can use atmospheric radar to detect
space debris. The investigation is carried out by modelling the transmitted signal,
the scattered signal for space debris in the presence of noise and also the impulse response
of the receiver. We assume that the noise is white noise and for optimal detection we
have employed matched filter at the receiver out put. The result shows that space debris
can be easily detection by means of atmospheric radar
Description
Keywords
Atmospheric radar