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Operation of the Ultra-Wideband Ice Radar requires experienced personnel on board the aircraft. The high total weight of the Ultra-Wideband Ice Radar system strongly limits flight distances.

Summary

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urn aircraft:bt-67:uwb_ice contenttype Summary
The EMUltra-Bird wideband ice radar is a digital frequency-domain electromagnetic-induction (EM) system, dedicated for measurements of sea ice thickness150-600 MHz VHF radar used for penetration of thick ice masses. It offers high power, fine range resolution, and very good cross-track resolution.

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urn aircraft:bt-67:uwb_ice contenttype Metadata
Manufacturer	Ferra Dynamics Inc.

Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS)
Model	UWB-Ice (Standard)

Model

Serial No.	n/a
Type	radar system
REGISTRY-Link	↪ REGISTRY (6809)

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Contacts

AWI

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urn aircraft:bt-67:uwb_ice contenttype Contacts
Name Institution Role Stefan Hendricks Daniela Jansen Alfred - Wegener -Institute	Data Scientist
Jan Rohde	AWI	Editor
Jan Rohde

Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

Device Contact

Components and Specifications

The EM-Bird UWB Ice system comprises the EM-Bird itself, which is lowered to the ice during flight. For deployment a winch is installed inside the aircraft. Power supply unit and operator PC are located on the winch.

Specifications of the EM-Bird(without mounting)

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antenna array and several rack mount units. Four 1000 W amplifiers and four 500 W amplifiers are housed by two racks.  The main radar rack is used for installation of the electronics such as 2 National Instruments PXI 1085 units,  1 National Instruments PXI 1075 unit, 1 waveform generator (DDS), a server and a T/R chassis (see images above). The system excluding the antenna array and the  racks themselves weighs about 340 kg. The LH wing antenna array and the right wing antenna array weigh ~205kg each while the fuselage antenna array weighs about 215 kg. The system additionally requires rack installations of 115 VAC / 60Hz inverters, two  115 VAC / 60Hz UPS, one 230 VAC UPS and a S.M. server which together amount to 165 kg. The high total weight thus strongly limits flight distances.

Position

Data logging, storage and archiving

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