NEAR-VERTICAL DIRECTION FINDING AND GEOLOCATION SYSTEM
摘要
A system and method for geolocating an RF emitter disposed on or near the ground includes receiving a signal from the RF emitter at each antenna of an array of N non-collinear antennas, wherein N is an integer greater than 2; routing the signal received at each of the antennas to one of a bank of N corresponding receivers; downconverting the N received signals to N downconverted signals; digitizing the N downconverted signals to digitized signals on N corresponding channels; using a processor to determine phase and amplitude variations across the N channels and to determine a Direction Vector corresponding to the signal received from the RF emitter; using a 2-dimensional pre-determined calibration table to look up a best match to the Direction Vector to determine a Bearing Vector to the RF emitter; and transforming the Bearing Vector into locally level reference frame.
申请公布号
WO2012016223(A1)
申请公布日期
2012.02.02
申请号
WO2011US46029
申请日期
2011.07.29
申请人
RAYTHEON APPLIED SIGNAL TECHNOLOGY, INC.;GOOCH, RICHARD P.;ROSCOW, ALAN W.