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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2017.18.6.627

A Study on the Accuracy Enhancement Using the Direction Finding Process Improvement of Ground-Based Electronic Warfare System  

Chin, Huicheol (Defense Agency for Technology and Quality)
Kim, Seung-Woo (Defense Agency for Technology and Quality)
Choi, Jae-In (Defense Agency for Technology and Quality)
Lee, Jae-Min (LIGNex1 Co.,Ltd)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.18, no.6, 2017 , pp. 627-635 More about this Journal
Abstract
Modern warfare is gradually changing into a network war, and information electronic warfare is also progressing. In modern war, electronic warfare is all military activity concerned with electromagnetic field use, such as signal collecting, communication monitoring, information analysis, and electronic attack. The one key function of signal collecting for enemy signal analysis, direction finding, collects the signal radiated from enemy area and then calculates the enemy direction. This paper examined the Watson-Watt algorithm for an amplitude direction finding system and CVDF algorithm for phase direction finding system and analyzed the difference in the direction finding accuracy between in the clean electromagnetic field environment and in the real operating field environment of electronic warfare system. In the real field, the direction finding accuracy was affected by the reflected field from the surrounding obstacles. Therefore, this paper proposesan enhanced direction finding process for reducing the effect. The result of direction finding by applying the proposed process was enhanced above $1.24^{\circ}$ compared to the result for the existing process.
Keywords
accuracy; CVDF; direction finding (DF); electronic warfare system; Watson-Watt;
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