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Using radar to map the bedrock under polar ice poses special challenges.
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John Paden, graduate student, EECS, University of Kansas, 2002. |
Modified Transcript: We're
designing an ice-penetrating radar. Most of the radars that you
are used to thinking about, like a policeman's radar for determining
the speed of a vehicle, operate in air. The electromagnetic propagation
through air is fairly simple. In our case we are building an ice
penetrating radar, so that adds a whole lot of unknowns. At the
same time it is what allows us to look at the bottom of the ice,
which is something we can't do otherwise. We can't just go up to
Greenland, or down to Antarctica and dig through kilometers of ice
just to find out what the bedrock reflectivity is. But it does pose
unique and difficult challenges.
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