Experimental demonstration of complex image theory for vertical magnetic dipoles with applications to remote sensing and position tracking

Position and orientation tracking in the magnetoquasistatic region of an electrically small transmitting loop antenna make use of complex image theory (CIT), which is an approximate algebraic model of the fields above a lossy dielectric, semiinfinite half-space. Experimental demonstrations of CIT from a transmitting loop that approximates a horizontal magnetic dipole (HMD) have been reported previously. This work reports the first experimental demonstration of CIT from a vertical magnetic dipole (VMD) in remote sensing and position-tracking applications.