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Radiolocation System Using Distributed Sensor Array Onboard a High Altitude Aerial Vehicle

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High altitude aerial vehicle, or platform, is expected to help public safety by monitoring various kinds of radio transmission with a high resolution, such as search and rescue signals and emergency calls, in addition to the optical monitoring and wireless relay. Unmanned aircrafts or airships are the candidates for the platform vehicle with those purposes. This paper proposes a system that estimates the location of transmitter sources on the ground by a large-aperture sensor array mounted on the high altitude aerial vehicle with a flexible structure and discusses on a real time calibration method for the position and internal phase errors of sensor elements.

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  1. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), 3-4 Hikarino-oka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 239-0847, Japan

    Ryu Miura, Hiroyuki Tsuji & Derek P. Gray

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Miura, R., Tsuji, H. & Gray, D.P. Radiolocation System Using Distributed Sensor Array Onboard a High Altitude Aerial Vehicle. Wireless Pers Commun 52, 241–251 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-008-9500-7

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