DocumentCode
1898528
Title
A wideband antenna array for DVB-T based passive bistatic radar applications
Author
O´Hagan, D.W. ; Basavarajappa, Vedaprabhu ; Knott, P. ; Kuschel, H. ; Ummenhofer, Martin ; Simeoni, M.
Author_Institution
Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHR, Neuenahrer Str. 20, 53343 Wachtberg, Germany
fYear
2012
fDate
22-25 Oct. 2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
6
Abstract
A Digital Video Broadcast Terrestrial (DVB-T) based passive radar requires the development of a dedicated antenna array that performs satisfactorily over the entire DVB-T band. The array should require no mechanical adjustments to interelement spacing to correspond to the DVB-T carrier frequency used for any particular measurement. This paper describes the challenges involved in designing an antenna array with a bandwidth of 450 MHz. The design procedure is discussed and a number of simulated array configurations are demonstrated. The final configuration of the array will be shown as well as simulations of the expected performance over the desired frequency span.
Keywords
DVB-T; Passive Bistatic Radar (PBR); circular array antenna; discone antenna; multilateration; polarisation;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Radar Systems (Radar 2012), IET International Conference on
Conference_Location
Glasgow, UK
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-84919-676
Type
conf
DOI
10.1049/cp.2012.1666
Filename
6494822
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