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Open a Discussion / Existing software for Impulse Response Function determination
« on: June 08, 2018, 08:38:17 AM »
Hi everybody from Matera,
I'm trying to make some analysis of the returns from Lageos ans Starlette satellites, and I'd like to perform a simulation of the retroreflected pulses from CCR array. So far I've used the John Degnan paper "Millimeter accuracy satellite laser ranging: a review". In particular, I used 6.1.4 and 6.1.8a for the cross section of each CCR and 6.5.1 for the time delay. The results don't match the data of figure 5.5-1 of "Prelaunch Optical characterization of the Laser Geodynamic Satellite", where a different model is used (see appendix A). Unfortunately I couldn't find any other documentation of the RETRO program used for the prelaunch analysis.
I'd like to know if any of you have worked on IRF and has some advices on how to properly reproduce them, maybe including interference and far field diffraction patterns.
Cheers
Daniele
I'm trying to make some analysis of the returns from Lageos ans Starlette satellites, and I'd like to perform a simulation of the retroreflected pulses from CCR array. So far I've used the John Degnan paper "Millimeter accuracy satellite laser ranging: a review". In particular, I used 6.1.4 and 6.1.8a for the cross section of each CCR and 6.5.1 for the time delay. The results don't match the data of figure 5.5-1 of "Prelaunch Optical characterization of the Laser Geodynamic Satellite", where a different model is used (see appendix A). Unfortunately I couldn't find any other documentation of the RETRO program used for the prelaunch analysis.
I'd like to know if any of you have worked on IRF and has some advices on how to properly reproduce them, maybe including interference and far field diffraction patterns.
Cheers
Daniele