Comparative study of high-performance gps receiving antenna designs

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 698-706

  Padros, Neus ^a   Ortigosa, Juan I ^a   Baker, James ^b   Iskander, Magdy F ^a   Thornberg, Bryce ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antennas; Global positioning system

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HELICAL ANTENNAS;

CONICAL SPIRAL ANTENNAS; PATCH ANTENNAS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE IE3D;

RECEIVING ANTENNAS;

EID: 0031117521     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.564096     Document Type: Article

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