COMPUTER DEMODULATION TECHNIQUE FOR A DUAL-CHANNEL MICROWAVE RADIOMETER

The three stairstep output of the video amplifier has now been designed for the NOAA/WPL dual-channel radiometer in order to provide an analog input to one A/D converter instead of to two phase-detectors, and the synchronous detection for data and AGC is done in software. We put the new system into the dual-channel radiometer which was set in Boulder Atmospheric Observatory (BAO) to make experiments for three weeks and found the processor reliable and flexible.