CHEN Bai-xiao, HU Tie-jun, ZHENG Zi-liang, et al. Method of Altitude Measurement Based on Beam Split in VHF Radar and Its Application[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2007, 35(6): 1021-1025.
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CHEN Bai-xiao, HU Tie-jun, ZHENG Zi-liang, et al. Method of Altitude Measurement Based on Beam Split in VHF Radar and Its Application[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2007, 35(6): 1021-1025.DOI:
Method of Altitude Measurement Based on Beam Split in VHF Radar and Its Application
The altitude of a target can only be estimated roughly by very high frequency(VHF) radar for this kind of radar has a wide beam which is usually be split because of the reflection from the ground.To resolve this problem
the paper proposes an accurate and effective method for measuring the altitude based on beam split
namely
Phase-comparison and Amplitude-comparison.In this measuring system
several antennas of different heights are utilized.Owing to the certain relationship among the phases of the split beams of different antennas
the phases of the echoes can be used to determine the elevation region the targets locate.Using "Amplitude-comparison" of echoes from various antennas to pick up the normalized error signals
the elevation of the target is obtained through looking up the table.An analysis of the effect on the altitude measurement accuracy caused by the roughness of ground is presented.This method has been used in some radar
and has been successfully used in the experiment of the altitude measurement in VHF radar.It has been proved that this approach is effective to measure the altitude of a target which has a rather low elevation.