Hysell, David; Chau, Jorge Luis; Coles, William A; Milla, Marco; Obenberger, Kenneth; Vierinen, Juha (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-07-09)
We argue that combining a high‐power, large‐aperture radar transmitter with several large‐aperture receiving arrays to make a geospace radar—a radar capable of probing near‐Earth space from the upper troposphere through to the solar corona—would transform geospace research. We review the emergence of incoherent scatter radar in the 1960s as an agent that unified early, pioneering research in geospace ...