Trabal del Valle, Jorge M.

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Puerto Rico deployable radar network design; site survey and radar design
(2003) Trabal del Valle, Jorge M.; Colom Ustáriz, José G.; College of Engineering; Cruz Pol, Sandra L.; Rodríguez Solís, Rafael; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Gilbes, Fernando
The Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory (MIRSL) at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Clouds Microwave Measurements of Atmospheric Events (CLiMMATE) Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez are collaborating to modify marine radars for use as meteorological radar nodes in a proposed weather radar network. This will be the first network to measure lower atmospheric phenomena in Puerto Rico. The radar consists of an antenna, a rotator, and a transceiver placed at the top of a tower or building, along with a data processing system. This thesis describes the survey method used in the MIRSL Tilson Farm field site, and the eleven campuses of the University of Puerto Rico backbone and justifies their fixed offset antennas’ elevation angle and location. A new dual-polarization Xband Doppler radar modification design with an internal calibration loop and a method to stabilize the magnetron thermal frequency drift is also described.