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a Matlab package for phased array beam shape inspection

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57<br />

∆X<br />

z<br />

E p<br />

χ<br />

P<br />

Q<br />

∆Z<br />

z<br />

r 2<br />

R 2<br />

R 1<br />

TA<br />

ɛ<br />

L<br />

r 1<br />

<br />

VHF<br />

x<br />

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Figure 25: TA: Geometry <strong>for</strong> computing the effective volume. We make two simplifications<br />

to the actual geometry. First, we assume flat Earth. Second, we assume<br />

that the VHF antenna rotation axes is along the y-axis in the figure, that is,<br />

perpendicular to the line from TA to the VHF antenna, which is our x-axis.<br />

The effective volume is computed using Eq. (96). Q is the center point of the<br />

common volume. P is a point in the computation grid. The angle χ is the<br />

angle between the polarization vector and the direction of the scattered wave.<br />

We did, by oversight, take χ to be constant over the whole computation grid.<br />

We did let the distances r 1 and r 2 to vary in the proper way, though.

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