A Digital Radio Echo-Sounding and Navigation Recording System

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The Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) Mk IV 60 MHz radio echo-sounding (RES) system has proven itself to be a most effective and versatile tool in glaciology. During the last 15 years, it has been used from a variety of platforms, both surface and airborne, and over a range of ice thicknesses from 4000 m to 100 m. However, the photographic recording methods used during this period were felt to be increasingly outdated in the context of modern data handling procedures. Accordingly, in late 1982 the Mk IV system was modified to incorporate fast digitizing of the RES receiver output, with microcomputer-controlled magnetic-tape recording of both the radar data and navigational inputs (Drewry and Liestøl 1985). The new system will be described, along with the improvements in data processing which have resulted from its use.

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