Analysis of JDAM tests at China Lake

Author

Welling, Kenneth

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

24-27 Aug 1998

Firstpage

666

Abstract

Summary form only given, as follows. This paper examines telemetry signal levels of the Joint Direct Air Munition (JDAM) tests at China Lake NAWC. Significant received signal level variations were observed as the munition approached impact. This paper presents and examines two simple multipath models to explain the received signal variations. The first model assumes a flat Earth and a single specular multipath reflection. The second model uses the actual contour of the Earth and considers a number of specular multipath reflections. The first model (which assumes the single multipath reflection) more accurately reproduces the variations in the received signal level than the second

Keywords

electromagnetic wave reflection; multipath channels; radiotelemetry; testing; weapons; China Lake; Earth contour; JDAM tests; Joint Direct Air Munition tests; NAWC; flat Earth; multipath models; received signal level variations; single specular multipath reflection; specular multipath reflections; telemetry signal levels; Earth; Lakes; Reflection; Telemetry; Testing; Weapons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AUTOTESTCON '98. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference., 1998 IEEE

Conference_Location

Salt Lake City, UT

ISSN

1088-7725

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4420-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.1998.713515

Filename

713515