• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.250-259
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• 2012

The need for position information in indoor environments has been growing lately. Several indoor navigation systems have been studied. Among them, pseudolite-based indoor positioning systems are one of the best systems to obtain precise position measurements. However, the installation of such systems is very difficult because the calibration of pseudolite antenna position is complicated. For precise calibration, the use of carrier phase measurements is necessary, and whenever carrier phase measurements are considered, problems with cycle ambiguity appear. In this paper, a new approach to calibrate the positions of pseudolite antennas is proposed. By using a multi-antenna, the ambiguity can be eliminated, epoch by epoch, for every single carrier phase measurement. Moreover, the number of calibration points can be reduced down to 3 by use of measurements collected at unknown positions. Using the proposed methods, the process of the collection of carrier phase measurements becomes considerably simple and convenient. Simulation results are presented to verify the proposed algorithms.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2004년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2004
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• pp.464-466
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• 2004

Ranging and 2-way Doppler measurements are very essential source for orbit determination in LEOP (Launch and Early Operation). This paper shows ranging system features of 13M TT &C antenna and test results recently acquired with KOMPSAT-l. Ranging and 2-way Doppler measurements were compared with KOMPSAT-I GPS telemetry data. Through comparison, it was found that constant and accurate ranging measurements are available with 13M antenna system. Ranging and Doppler measurement function is expected to be used for KOMPSAT-1 and KOMPSAT-2.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제21권10호
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• pp.1184-1193
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• 2010

국제적으로 전자파 적합성에 대한 규제 주파수가 보다 높은 주파수로 상향 조정되어 1 GHz 이상의 주파수로 확장되고 있다. 1 GHz 이상에서의 복사 방출 특성은 기존의 1 GHz 이하의 주파수에 비해 전계 강도가 낮고, 복사 패턴이 날카롭고 경사지는 등 매우 다른 복사 특성을 가진다. 본 논문에서는 이중 쇄기형 혼 안테나를 급전기로 사용하는 옵셋 파라볼라 안테나 시스템을 사용하여 1 GHz 이상의 주파수 대역에서 보다 효과적인 측정이 가능함을 확인하였다. 먼저 옵셋 파라볼라 안테나 시스템의 안테나 인자와 전기장 균일도를 계산할 수 있는 간단한 모델을 제시하였으며, 나아가서 표준 노이즈 소스와 제안된 안테나 시스템을 이용하여 1 GHz 이상의 주파수에서 실제적인 복사 방출 및 복사 내성을 평가하였다. 이러한 실험을 통해서 제안된 안테나 시스템이 기존에 널리 사용되고 있는 이중 쇄기형 혼 안테나에 비해 보다 높은 이득과 전력 효율, 그리고 보다 넓은 전기장 균일도를 가지며, 따라서 1 GHz 이상의 전자파 적합성 평가에 효과적으로 이용될 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.287-296
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• 2022

High-frequency (HF) radar measures sea surface currents from the radio waves transmitted and received by antenna on land. Since the data quality of HF radar measurements sensitively depend on the radio wave environment around antenna, Antenna Pattern Measurements (APM) plays an important role in evaluating the accuracy of measured surface currents. In this study, APM was performed by selecting the times when the background noise level around antenna was high and low, and radial data were generated by applying the ideal pattern and measured pattern. The measured antenna pattern for each case was verified with the current velocity data collected by drifters. The radial velocity to which the ideal pattern was applied was not affected by the background noise level around antenna. However, the radial velocity obtained with APM in the period of high background noise was significantly lower in quality than the radial velocity in a low noise environment. It is recomended that APM be carried out in consideration of the radio wave environment around antenna, and that the applied result be compared and verified with the current velocity measurements by drifters. If it is difficult to re-measure APM, we suggest using radial velocity in generating total vector with the ideal pattern through comparative verification, rather than poorly measured patterns, for better data quality.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.24-29
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• 2001

In this paper, the wideband microstrip antennas for the PCS & IMT-200O dual band are studied. Experimental and simulation results on the dual band antenna are presented. Simulation results are in good agreement with measurements. The experimental and simulation results confirm the wideband characteristics of the antenna. The studied antenna satisfies the wideband characteristics that are required characteristics for above 420 MHz impedance bandwidth for the PCS & IMT-2OO0 dual band antenna. In this paper, through the designing of a dual band antenna, we have presented the availability for PCS & IMT-20O0 base station antenna.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.382-386
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• 2014

The knowledge of substrate material properties is important in antenna design. We present a technique to accurately characterize the dielectric constant and loss tangent of an antenna substrate based on the measurements of antenna's reflection coefficient and bandwidth. In this technique, an error function is formulated by combinations of the reflection coefficient and bandwidth of measured and simulated data, and then an optimization technique is used to efficiently search for the substrate properties that minimize the error function. The results show that the method is effective in retrieving the dielectric constant and loss tangent of the antenna substrate without the need of additional test fixtures as in conventional substrate characterization methods.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.166-181
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• 1999

The object of this paper is to investigate the influence of antenna pattern on indoor radio channel characteristics. Different from previous works where this analysis was carried out at a fixed frequency using different antennas, in the present paper (where measurements were taken in a wide frequency range) the variation of the radiation pattern was caused by two factors: the change of the radiation pattern when the same antenna was used at different frequenicies and the use of different type of antennas. To carry out this analysis, frequency domain measurements of the indoor radio channel at 1 GHz, 5.5 GHz, 10 GHz and 18 GHz were collected. Measurements were taken using a network analyzer. Serveral re-alizations of the channel transfer function were obtained varying, for each measurement, the positon of the transmitter and keep-ing the receiver fixed. Estimate of the channel impulse response was obtained from the Inverse Fourier Transform (IFT) of the fre-quency response. The measurements were performed in an office enviroment with mostly metallic walls and inner separations. The obtained data were elaborated to obtain the power versus distance relationship, the Cummulative Distribution Functions(CDFs) of rms Delay Spread(DS) and of the 3 dB frequency correlation band-width. Finally, the 3 dB width of the frequency correlation func-tion has been empirically related to the inverse of the rms DS of the impulse response.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.388-396
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• 2007

This paper describes a multipath estimation method for Global Positioning System (GPS) dual frequency carrier phase measurements. Multipath is a major error source in high precision GPS applications, i.e., carrier phase measurements for precise positioning and attitude determinations. In order to estimate and remove multipath at carrier phase measurements, an array GPS antenna system has been used. The known geometry between the antennas is used to estimate multipath parameters. Dual frequency carrier phase measurements increase the redundancy of measurements, so it can reduce the number of antennas. The unscented Kalman filter (UKF) is recently applied to many areas to overcome some of the limitations of the extended Kalman filter (EKF) such as weakness to severe nonlinearity. This paper uses the UKF for estimating multipath parameters. A series of simulations were performed with GPS antenna arrays located on a straight line with one reflector. The geometry information of the antenna array reduces the number of estimated multipath parameters from four to three. Both the EKF and the UKF are used as estimation algorithms and the results of the EKF and the UKF are compared. When the initial parameters are far from true parameters, the UKF shows better performance than the EKF.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.224-231
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• 2015

A comparison of the antenna parameters for R-band (1.7-2.6 GHz) and S-band (2.6-3.95 GHz) standard gain horn antennas has been performed by the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), together with seven domestic participants from private companies and public institutions. Its purpose, as a proficiency test program of the 'Antenna Measurement Club' of KRISS, was to check equivalences in antenna parameter measurements between KRISS and the participants, particularly in the R-/S-band, to support antenna manufacturers and end users in Korea. The measurement parameters of this comparison are the power gain, radiation pattern, and reflection coefficient of the traveling standards for R-/S-band pyramidal standard gain horn antennas. The comparison used a gain comparison method and an extrapolation method to measure the power gain of the two traveling standards; the radiation patterns were measured in the far-field region of the transmitting and receiving antennas.

• 천문학논총
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.53-58
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• 2014

We improved the antenna efficiency of the Taeduk Radio Astronomy Observatory (TRAO) 13.7-m radio telescope by adjusting the antenna panels based on digital photogrammetric measurements. First of all, we measured the surface accuracy of the main reflector of this antenna at three elevation angles of $35^{\circ}$, $45^{\circ}$, and $60^{\circ}$. We performed a total of four sets of the photogrammetric measurements and panel adjustments. When adjusting the panels, we positioned the antenna to the zenith and applied the measured data sets at the elevation of $45^{\circ}$. We found that the antenna surface accuracy has been improved by a factor of ~ 3 times after the final adjustment in comparison with the value before the adjustments. And we also found that the antenna surface accuracy tended to be slightly better at the elevation angles of $35^{\circ}$ and $60^{\circ}$ than that at the elevation angle of $45^{\circ}$. After the final panel adjustment, the aperture and beam efficiencies of the telescope have has been improved from 35% to 44%, and from 41% to 51%, respectively.