Title :
Circular array interferometer
Author :
Ling Tiesheng ; Feng Hua
Author_Institution :
Electromagn. Sci. Inst., Sichuan, China
Abstract :
A novel interferometer called the "circular array interferometer" is presented theoretically. This interferometer consists of three antenna elements distributed on a circle. It has a very high accuracy of angle-of-arrival (AOA) measurement compared with the conventional interferometer.
Keywords :
angular measurement; antenna arrays; array signal processing; direction-of-arrival estimation; measurement errors; radiowave interferometers; spatial variables measurement; AOA measurement accuracy; angle-of-arrival measurement; antenna elements; circular array interferometer; phase measurement error; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Antenna theory; Aperture antennas; Goniometers; Instruments; Length measurement; Phase detection; Phase measurement; Phased arrays;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 1996. AP-S. Digest
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3216-4
DOI :
10.1109/APS.1996.549849
