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Passive tracking system and method
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2003 |
| Description | Systems and methods are disclosed for passively determining the location of a moveable transmitter utilizing a pair of phase shifts at a receiver for extracting a direction vector from a receiver to the transmitter. In a preferred embodiment, a phase difference between the transmitter and receiver is extracted utilizing a noncoherent demodulator in the receiver. The receiver includes an antenna array with three antenna elements, which preferably are patch antenna elements spaced apart by one-half wavelength. Three receiver channels are preferably utilized for simultaneously processing the received signal from each of the three antenna elements. Multipath transmission paths for each of the three receiver channels are indexed so that comparisons of the same multipath component are made for each of the three receiver channels. The phase difference for each received signal is determined by comparing only the magnitudes of received and stored modulation signals to determine a winning modulation symbol. |
| File Size | 1745300 |
| Page Count | 25 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20040000336 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t8gf5rr6k |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2003-09-09 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Communications And Radar Multipath Transmission Patents Transmitters Patch Antennas Demodulators Receivers Tracking Position Antenna Arrays Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Patent |