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A Compact Multipath Mitigating Ground Plane for Multiband GNSS Antennas

Maqsood, Mozam, Gao, Steven, Brown, Tim W.C., Unwin, Martin, De Vos Van Steenwijk, R., Xu, Jiadong (2013) A Compact Multipath Mitigating Ground Plane for Multiband GNSS Antennas. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 61 (5). pp. 2775-2782. ISSN 0018-926X. (doi:10.1109/TAP.2013.2243692) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:35519)

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2013.2243692

Abstract

This paper presents the design of a novel multipath mitigating ground plane for global navigation satellite system (GNSS) antennas. First, the concept of a compact low multipath cross-plate reflector ground plane (CPRGP) is presented. In comparison with the choke ring and electromagnetic band gap (EBG) ground planes, the proposed CPRGP has compact size, low mass, wide operational bandwidth, and simple configuration. The proposed CPRGP is then integrated with a circularly polarized dual-band GNSS antenna in order to assess the multipath mitigating performance over two frequency bands. Measurement results of the proposed CPRGP with GNSS antenna achieves a front-to-back ratio (FBR) over 25 dB at L1 (1.575 GHz) and L2 (1.227 GHz) bands and maximum backward cross-polarization levels below -23 dB at both bands. Antenna phase center variation remains less than 2 mm across both L1 and L2 bands. Furthermore, the performance comparison of the proposed CPRGP with the commercially available pinwheel antenna and the shallow corrugated ground plane is presented, showing the advantages of CPRGP for high precision GNSS applications.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1109/TAP.2013.2243692
Uncontrolled keywords: INSPEC: CONTROLLED INDEXING multifrequency antennas multipath channels photonic band gap satellite antennas INSPEC: NON CONTROLLED INDEXING CPRGP EBG ground planes FBR antenna phase center variation choke ring circularly polarized dual-band antenna compact low multipath cross-plate reflector ground plane compact multipath mitigating ground plane electromagnetic band gap ground planes frequency 1.227 GHz frequency 1.575 GHz front-to-back ratio global navigation satellite system antennas multiband GNSS antennas pinwheel antenna shallow corrugated ground plane AUTHOR KEYWORDS Corrugated surfaces global positioning system (GPS) multi frequency antennas multipath interference
Subjects: T Technology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Engineering and Digital Arts
Depositing User: Tina Thompson
Date Deposited: 18 Oct 2013 10:39 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:12 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/35519 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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