TY - GEN
T1 - A comparative study of horn antennas suitable for the transmitting antenna array module of MELISSA architecture
AU - Vincent, Shweta
AU - Francis, Sharmila Anand John
AU - Kumar, Om Prakash
AU - Rajsingh, Elijah Blessing
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The MELISSA system is a ground based aperture radar that has been designed for landslide monitoring in Italy. It consists of a linear antenna array of 12 Pyramidal horn antennas present in the transmitting module of the system and another linear array of 12 receiving Vivaldi antennas. It has been proven that an alternate planar antenna array geometry of 2 × 6 pyramidal horn antennas gives a better performance than the 12 linear horns; present in the transmitting module of MELISSA; in terms of directivity, half power beam width and peak side lobe ratio. This paper aims at presenting a comparative study of peak gains and half power beam widths of various other types of individual horn antenna elements that could be used to replace the conventional pyramidal horn in the earlier proposed 2 × 6 planar configuration and thereby revise the MELISSA system.
AB - The MELISSA system is a ground based aperture radar that has been designed for landslide monitoring in Italy. It consists of a linear antenna array of 12 Pyramidal horn antennas present in the transmitting module of the system and another linear array of 12 receiving Vivaldi antennas. It has been proven that an alternate planar antenna array geometry of 2 × 6 pyramidal horn antennas gives a better performance than the 12 linear horns; present in the transmitting module of MELISSA; in terms of directivity, half power beam width and peak side lobe ratio. This paper aims at presenting a comparative study of peak gains and half power beam widths of various other types of individual horn antenna elements that could be used to replace the conventional pyramidal horn in the earlier proposed 2 × 6 planar configuration and thereby revise the MELISSA system.
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U2 - 10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806226
DO - 10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806226
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85015929025
T3 - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing, VLSI, Electrical Circuits and Robotics, DISCOVER 2016 - Proceedings
SP - 28
EP - 34
BT - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing, VLSI, Electrical Circuits and Robotics, DISCOVER 2016 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing, VLSI, Electrical Circuits and Robotics, DISCOVER 2016
Y2 - 13 August 2016 through 14 August 2016
ER -