Phased array acoustic antenna

Measuring and testing – Navigation – Leeway incidence or side-slip

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7386125, G01W 102, G01S 966

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ABSTRACT:
A system for remote measurement of wind velocity in the atmosphere, operating from ground level. An array of acoustic transducer elements which provide for transmitting a beam of acoustic energy along a path and receiving such transmitted energy as scattered by wind in the path. The system includes signal transmitting means for driving the arrays, and signal receiving means, with a switching system for connecting the elements of the array to the transmitting means and to the receiving means, for operation as a monostatic system. Phase control for the transmitted signals comprising phase shifters and switches for selectively connecting driving signals to the elements of the array for driving selected elements at different phases to produce first, second and third beams in sequence at three different predetermined angles from a single antenna.

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patent: 3675191 (1972-07-01), McAllister
D. N. Asimakopoulos et al., "An Acoustic Sounder--Lower Atmosphere", Journal of Physics E, vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 47-50, Jan. 1977.
I. A. Bourne et al., "The Remote Sensing of Wind--Using Acoustic Radar", I.M.C. Conference, Moscow, USSR (May 1979), pp. 549-556.
H. D. Parry et al., "The Design and Operation of an Acoustic Radar", IEEE G.E. Symposium, Wash., D.C. (Aug. 1971), pp. 58-64.

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