MST radar signal processing using iterative adaptive approach

Abstract

Abstract Power spectrum is the considerable aspect in the atmospheric radar data processing to estimate wind parameters. Due to the poor resolution and high sidelobe level problems of the existing algorithms, there is a requisite for the novel data-dependent approaches. A non-parametric and hyperparameter-free iterative adaptive approach (IAA) is presented for the power spectral density estimation. This approach is able to work with single snapshot and is obtained by minimizing the weighted least square fitting criterion. The IAA method provides the accurate amplitude and frequency estimation for the simulated data. The data for the above study is collected from Indian MST (mesosphere, stratosphere, and troposphere) radar. The power spectrum and Doppler frequency are estimated using IAA. In this paper, zonal (U), meridional (V), windspeed (W) are also calculated and validated using Global Positioning System Sonde data. The effectiveness of the spectral estimation performance showed by IAA is demonstrated and assessed.

Keywords

• Spectral estimation
• MST radar
• IAA
• GPS