Conditioning Jovian Burst Signals for Passive Sounding Applications

Passively sounding icy and rocky bodies in our Solar System provides a way to observe the surface and subsurface of these objects without the need for costly transmitters. Jupiter's decametric radiation provides a suitable source of radio-frequency signals for sounding on geological scales of interest, but its spectral structure can introduce undesired artifacts. We present conditioning processes that improve the echo detectability and sounding resolution for Jovian burst-like signals. More than 18 hours of Jovian burst recordings are used to simulate conditioning of the natural spectral variation demonstrating high-quality corrections are possible with these processes for noise conditions in the Jovian and Earth/Moon systems.