10.26180/5d9d615bd642a
MUHSIUL HASSAN
MUHSIUL
HASSAN
Shared Aperture Planar Array Antenna for Soil Moisture Radiometer
Monash University
2019
Radiometer
Microwave
Soil moisture
Microwave and Millimetrewave Theory and Technology
2019-10-09 04:26:02
Thesis
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Shared_Aperture_Planar_Array_Antenna_for_Soil_Moisture_Radiometer/9918473
A shared aperture radiometer antenna system is developed to measure soil moisture. Currently, only L-band (1.4 GHz) radiometer are mostly being used to map the soil moisture which lacks resolution. This research explores the possibility of using multiple higher frequency band radiometers along with the traditional L-band radiometer to help downscale the radiometer footprint hence increasing the resolution. Starting from the scratch, single element antenna, array synthesis, beamforming and multi-band configuration have been discussed and necessary measurements have been presented.