This application discloses a
beam control method and related products for a curved
phased array weather radar, wherein the
radar has
multiple antenna elements arranged along an arc surface. In this scheme, M consecutively arranged antenna elements are selected from the
multiple antenna elements to form a subarray, with only the antenna elements in the current subarray operating. A
phase compensation amount is determined based on the position of each
antenna element on the arc surface, causing the beam formed by the subarray to point towards the normal direction of the chord of its corresponding arc surface. The current beam is generated based on the
phase compensation amount. The subarray is slid along the arc surface to a new starting position with a preset step, and the above steps are repeated to form multiple beams with different directions at different time periods. This application uses
phase compensation to equate the curved subarray to a normal planar
linear array, avoiding
beam broadening and
gain reduction problems. By sliding the subarray, each beam maintains its normal characteristics, achieving consistent beam performance across the entire scanning range and effectively improving the
radar's observation accuracy.