cosecant-squared pattern

cosecant-squared pattern

[kō′sē‚kant ¦skwerd ′pad·ərn]
(electromagnetism)
A ground radar-antenna radiation pattern that sends less power to nearby objects than to those farther away in the same sector; the field intensity varies as the square of the cosecant of the elevation angle.
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The measured results showed good impedance matching performance, and a cosecant-squared pattern with some distortion of the main beam.
A shaped-beam series-fed aperture-coupled stacked patch array antenna

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