Wire monopole antenna for low earth orbit satellite applications

Abstract

Satellite Based Automatic- Identification System (SB-AIS) is an innovative work in a VHF communication system for real time ship traffic surveillance. This is the most promising solution to overcome the limitation of terrestrial AIS full coverage with the potential to provide AIS detection service coverage in any given vicinity on earth. SB-AIS payload system comprises of receiver antenna, data storage units, signal and data processing units. In this paper a Face centered and Edge centered wire monopole antenna using coaxial feeding technique is designed and simulated using HFSSv.14 software, which can receive the AIS signals such as name, position, type, speed, destination etc. from the ship.