Welcome to ATOM Laboratory!

 

ATOM Laboratory strives to increase our understanding of the atmosphere and oceans using electromagnetics (EM). We design and manufacture our EM systems to perform remote sensing of lower atmospheric and oceanographic conditions. Our specialization is in marine and coastal environments that deal with non-standard atmospheric conditions such as ducting, parabolic wave equation, tropospheric and ionospheric turbulence, sea clutter, radar and communication system performance under different atmospheric/oceanographic conditions. For more information please read the news article written on this research topic, “Studying the Breeze“.

The Lower Atmospheric Propagation (LATPROP) system is a custom-built system to study the non-standard atmospheric conditions in marine and coastal environments. It is composed of:

  • A propagation loss measuring ultra wideband TX/RX system operating from 2 to 40 GHz.
  • A refractivity-from-clutter (RFC) capable 25 kW, software-defined, coherent, X-band marine radar.
  • Drones for scintillation and propagation loss measurements. We have a small, a medium, a large (55 lb. payload), and a tethered drone systems.
  • 8-element software-defined radio based, phase-coherent vertical array (CoVA)

We have grants/collaborations with (not limited to) MIT Lincoln Lab, Air Force Research Lab, Air Force Institute of Technology, Office of Naval Research, Navy Research Lab, Naval Postgraduate School, University of Notre Dame, UC Irvine, JHU APL, Army Research Lab.

Dr. Yardim’s group currently is composed of 3 Ph.D. level graduate students with 3 Ph.D. graduates and a postdoc:

  • Elizabeth Shi
  • Joe Vinci
  • DeGrafth Palmore
  • Luyao Xu (graduated)
  • Swagato Mukherjee (graduated)
  • Joshua Compaleo (graduated)
  • Mustafa Yalcin: Assistant Professor, Afyon, Turkey