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Antennas on Aircraft, Ships, or Any Large, Complex Environment

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The overall capability of an electromagnetic radiating system is dependent on its ability to operate effectively in a complex environment, in that its pattern performance can be adversely limited by pattern distortion effects, such as blockage and structural scattering. In many cases these detrimental effects can be minimized by judiciously locating the antennas. This task is complicated by the large number of systems that are competing for prime locations on, for example, a modern military ship. Without an efficient means to position such systems one normally attempts to use locations similar to previous designs, which may be inexpensive but are certainly not optimum. As a result there is a great need for electromagnetic tools that can efficiently evaluate the pattern performance of radiating systems in their proposed environment.

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Burnside, W.D., Marhefka, R.J. (1993). Antennas on Aircraft, Ships, or Any Large, Complex Environment. In: Lo, Y.T., Lee, S.W. (eds) Antenna Handbook. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2638-4_4

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