What is the utility of chirp stacking?

[joelwilner]

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[jkingslake]

This is a great question.

The short answer is that it reduces noise and allows the radar to image reflectors that would otherwise be 'buried-in the noise' (i.e. the noise would be higher amplitude that the amplitude of the reflectors, rendering them undetectable).

I think we should add a demonstration of the effect of stacking to various degrees in the glaciology JupyterBook we've been working on.

ImpDar includes a quick demo of stacking here. It could be good to build on this to include in the glaciology JupyterBook.

Could be a nice first page for someone to contribute to that project if anyone is interested.

I started an issue over in the glaciology JupyterBook repo as a place to discuss if we need it.

Thanks @joelwilner for question!