Stealthy buildings for radio navigation applications

Author

Thain, A. ; Jaber, A. ; Robert, J. ; Platon, Y. ; Herve, A. ; Peres, G. ; Pasquier, B. ; Evain, L. ; Cambon, G. ; Harly, F. ; Lenquette, H. ; Sinigaglia, B. ; Spitz, B.

Author_Institution

Airbus Group Innovations, Toulouse, France

fYear

2015

fDate

13-17 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

It is sometimes necessary to reduce the electromagnetic signature of buildings because of their undesirable effect on aircraft navigation systems. Indeed, planning permission is not granted to buildings close to airport runways unless their perturbation can be reduced to less than specified regulatory thresholds. This paper presents two solutions for doing this: A thick, conventional, diffraction grating which has been mounted on a real building facade at Toulouse International Airport and a new, thin resonant diffraction grating that has been successfully demonstrated on a full scale test base.

Keywords

aircraft navigation; airports; buildings (structures); diffraction gratings; electromagnetic wave absorption; microwave materials; radionavigation; aircraft navigation; airport runways; building facade; conventional diffraction grating; electromagnetic signature; planning permission; radio navigation applications; stealthy buildings; thick diffraction grating; Airports; Buildings; Diffraction; Diffraction gratings; Electromagnetics; Radio navigation; Building; Diffraction; ILS; Stealth;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2015 9th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Type

conf

Filename

7228251