Modeling the impact of solar parks on VHF aeronautical communications

The setting of photovoltaic power stations near aeronautical communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS) devices may cause scattering and multipath effects. For VHF radiocommunications, this may lead to a critical degradation of onboard/ground communications. This paper aims at proposing a fast computation of the impact of such solar parks on communication signals, based on the solar-panels bistatic radar cross section (RCS) and multipath calculation.