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The article presents the tasks, characteristic features, tactical and technical characteristics, the possible location and scope of the near-airfield meteorological radar complex. The analysis is made of the comparison of meteorological radar data from the near-airfield meteorological radar complex with reliable sources of meteorological information obtained during preliminary, acceptance, certification tests. The features of carrying out during the validation tests of meteorological radar data of the near-airfield meteorological radar complex are described, namely: dangerous meteorological phenomena (showers of different intensities, thunderstorms with a probability of 30-70%, 71-90%, > 90%, hail of varying degrees of intensity, squall of different intensities), velocity and direction of movement of cloud formations, vector velocity field. Examples of comparing the data of the near-airfield meteorological radar complex with data from a priori reliable sources of information are shown in the form of maps, graphs and tables. It is shown that the data of the near-airfield meteorological radar complex were obtained during testing and certification covering the warm and cold periods of the year, the sample size is statistically significant (except for the sample to assess the vector velocity field from data of aircraft and radar due to the spatial-temporal features comparing data from the two indicated information sources). It was established that the near-airfield meteorological radar complex provides acceptable in accordance with the requirements the construction quality of meteorological phenomena maps, the vector velocity field and the estimation of the cloud formations movement vector. The article illustrates the results of the statistical analysis of the data of the near-airfield meteorological radar complex, obtained personally by the author of the article. Analysis of meteorological data of the near-airfield meteorological radar complex was carried out with the aim of further exploitation of the near-airfield meteorological radar complex.

The upcoming transition to a new generation of the elements in the ATC system - AZN-B - has set a number of tasks related to confirming the integrity of the data received, and determining their accuracy characteristics. Radar surveillance systems which are used up to now have established a good reputation and the matter of succession is naturally associated with the comparison of these two recording systems data. Discrepancies (differences) in the AZN-B registrations and radar data are an additional source of information related to reliability and accuracy of their measurements. The problem lies in the method of information extraction. The article analyzes the stable features of discrepancy distribution (histograms) probability obtained in the "Air Navigation Research and Development Institute" branch of GosNII GA by analyzing the observations of aircraft operations in Moscow region. The presence of asymmetry in these histograms is supposed to be interpreted as the presence of uncompensated latency in the transmission of data from AZN-B, which is typical for a certain portion of aircraft in the airspace of Russia. The emphasis on the "territorial affiliation" of the effect is due to the fact that we don’t have any information about the works abroad devoted to the phenomenon under discussion. In accordance with the hypothesis stated, a mathematical model of the measurement procedure with the following parameters to be estimated was constructed: the average value of the uncompensated delay and the expected share of aircraft, characterized by this defect. The values of the sought-for parameters were discovered according to the condition of minimum "distance" between the experimental histogram and the corresponding model analytical dependence. The estimates made revealed that about 30% of the aircraft, out of the total observed number, report their coordinates with an additional error of 75 m. at an average.

Monitoring technologies are rapidly developing at present and allow to extract and use non-coordinate information about objects. Noncoordinate information is the information about the type and properties of an object under study. Remote sensing is the main method of solving monitoring problems where special positioning belongs to the radar methods, based on space-time processing of signals and, in particular, on methods of radio polarimetry. It is necessary to have information about the surface in order to solve the monitoring task. The slightest changes in the electrical and physical properties of such areas as salinity, humidity, soil composition, etc. will lead to a change in the basic electrodynamics of the surface, notably its complex dielectric permittivity. The article demonstrates the precise solutions to the problems of radio-waves reflection from a layered surface with various laws of changes of the complex permittivity  in depth. Media with exponential and quadratic laws of variation  for arbitrary angles of incidence of the radio wave on the surface are considered. Precise decision is obtained for layered media with the law of change in the complex permittivity the polynomial and linear characteristics. A similar problem for the parabolic layer is considered separately. The detailed analysis of radio waves reflection from the medium with a matching layer is carried out. The nature of the electromagnetic field inside the transition layer is studied in detail. The article is illustrated by the graphs showing the dependences of an electromagnetic wave reflection coefficient on the layered medium with linear and exponential laws of variation of the complex dielectric constant over depth.

Aerodrome-enroute surveillance radar systems (ARSR) of civil aviation are designed for detection of aerial objects and determination of their range and movement parameters. Meanwhile, the reflector-type antennas are still the main type of_used antenna systems. Radars (ARSR) have, as a rule, antennas with a bidirectional beam, structurally reflector-type antenna is made in the form of a truss welded structure. The use of active phased antenna arrays (APAR) is a promising direction of radars (ARSR) development. Radars (ARSR) based on the phased antenna arrays can significantly improve such critical tactical and technical criteria as: the accuracy of the coordinates determination, the number of simultaneously followed targets. However, the use of APAR does not solve one of the main problems - the presence of a support-rotary device in the radar (ARSR). The principal necessity of a support-rotary device leads to the need of the use of movable joints of feeder lines, which, with a significant number of antenna elements used in the PAR, significantly reduces the potential time before failure. It seems promising to use in the radar antenna systems based on several stationary multi-beam dual-reflector antennas made by axially asymmetric scheme. Methodology of estimation of aberrations of a dual-reflector sensimetrics antenna based on a polynomial expansion of the eikonal function in the plane of the aperture of the main reflector is proposed in the article. Analytical expressions of the functions of display and rotation of the scanning plane of a dual-reflector axially asymmetric antenna with arbitrary parameters, designed based on clippings from centrally symmetric surfaces of rotation of the second order, are obtained. It is shown that the aplanatic antennas lose their scanning features during the transition to the axially asymmetric variant.

The disadvantage of (RLI) radar images obtained with a single-channel radar station is the presence of speckle that leads to intensity flashes increasing the number of false alarms when detecting point targets. Therefore, the detection and target distinguishing by their reflective capability (using the energy characteristics of the signal) is not effective enough. In polarimetric radar stations the formation of each image element is carried out by the output signals of four receiving channels. Joint processing of these signals allows minimizing speckle without reducing the resolution capability. The paper presents the results of the computer simulation of the suppression methods of the image speckle obtained in the polarized radar stations with the synthesized antenna aperture. The first one uses the norm of the backscattering matrix as a parameter of the intensity of the reflected signal resolution from the i-th element. The incoherent addition of the intensities obtained by sequential overview of the space with several rays is carried out in the second one. Both of these methods can be applied together. The block diagram of such processing for one strip of range is given. The computer simulation of the three-rayed suppression method of the image speckle obtained in the radar stations with the synthesized antenna aperture is carried out. As a model of the reflecting surface a random diffraction grating formed by a set of independent reflectors located at the nodes of a regular rectangular grid with a step of 1 m is chosen. In this connection the image of the grating is formed as an incoherent sum of three images obtained at different angles. The results show that the speckle effect reduces even at angular changes of the order of degree units.

Often, the monitoring systems solution of remote sensing problems, recognition (classification, discrimination) of radar objects using radio polarimetry methods is required in real time mode with the display of the current information on the radar monitor. Monitoring systems can be either stationary (more often terrestrial) or mobile (based on various transport vehicles). When designing such systems, along with ensuring the required speed and performance of the computer, it is also important to ensure the unification of the units and assemblies, the reduction of weight and size characteristics, simplification of the tuning, increase of the operational reliability. In this case, the use of blocks of digital information processing is required. When digitally processing polarized signals, it is necessary to convert the input analog signal to digital form, i.e. to sampled by time and frequency and perform level quantization. The peculiarities of the discretization of the radar polarized signal over time are considered in the article. Analytical expressions for the input polarized signal are derived with considering the geometric parameters of the polarization ellipse. Formulas are given for the in-phase and quadrature components of the polarized signal, for a complex signal envelope. It is alleged that quadrature processing of the polarized signal leads to a decrease in the requirements for analog-to-digital conversion chips due to a significant reduction in the sampling frequency. After the transformations presented in the article, electronic components, which are already in production by Russian companies in the radio electronic industry, can be used in monitoring systems. The transformations of a polarized signal in the time domain described in the article lead to certain transformations in the frequency domain. We are talking about converting the two-side signal spectrum into a one-side spectrum with its transfer to the video frequency region. Such a conversion helps to reduce the sampling rate from gigahertz to megahertz. Analytic expressions in the time domain are accompanied in the article by a graphic interpretation of the signal spectra in the frequency domain. A scheme for demodulating the in-phase and quadrature components of the polarized signal is given. Functional features of filtering units in the scheme are described, the attention of the designers of the digital signal processing systems to the requirements of the Kotel'nikov's sampling theorem is emphasized.

The basis of modern radar techniques is the direct use of radio-physical data on the power of backscattering. At the same time, the data volume received from the radar allows us to form new estimates and essentially specify classical ones. Significant steps have been made in this direction, using, for example, phase (Doppler) methods. The "modified Rayleigh model" used in radar meteorology to form a scattered field on rarefied medium particles is called the Kerr-Rice model. The main advantage of the Rayleigh model is its simplicity. But it itself contains a deep contradiction, consisting in its logical completion. Based on the statistics study of the first distribution in the rains of varying intensity the authors on a large statistical material have determined the fact of their not Rayleigh form and extreme stability of the latter in relation to natural changes of precipitation intensity. The first distribution is different from the theoretically expected one in the Kerr-Rice model, which makes it possible to use linear-logarithmic detection. It is concluded that the width and the mean of the spectrum of the same signal have the expected dynamics with respect to changes in precipitation intensity and dynamic processes in them. Tables with experimental data are presented. Two main distribution models are considered: lognormal and "logo-gamma-functional". It is concluded that, despite the absence of qualitative differences, the difference in the form of the distributions obtained with different equipment can be a natural consequence of significant discrepancies in the peak power and / or the width of the antenna pattern. The graphs of the first experimental distributions of envelope fluctuations on a linear and semi-logarithmic scale are presented.

The article contains the statistics analyzes of accidents associated with adverse external conditions, including weather conditions, for seven years. On the analysis basis insufficient supply of final consumers meteorologic data is concluded. One of the ways to improve meteorological support of Unified air traffic management system consolidated centers by creating regional centers of processing radar information for conducting environment geophysical monitoring is suggested.