Antenna Pattern Estimation from Field Intensity Measurements in a Realistic Reverberation Chamber

Free-space antenna radiation pattern estimation from intensity measurements made in reverberating environments has been investigated by several authors. We extend our previous anal- ysis of a simple directivity estimator appropriate to the case where the antenna under test (and the measuring probe) is located in an ideal reverberation chamber, where the reverberation-field compo- nents are Gaussian distributed and uncorrelated to a more realis- tic reverberation chamber model, where the field statistics deviate from the ideal ones