Measurements of Atmospheric Effects on Satellite Links at Very Low Elevation Angle
This paper describes experiments and results obtained from propagation measurements with the Orbital Test Satellite (OTS) at the Arctic islands of Spitzbergen (78 N). The elevation angle of the satellite was 3.2 deg and the frequency 11.8 GHz. The experiments carried out included measurements of atm...
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ftdtic:ADP003887 2023-05-15T15:04:07+02:00 Measurements of Atmospheric Effects on Satellite Links at Very Low Elevation Angle Gutteberg,O. NORWEGIAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT KJELLER 1984-02 text/html http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADP003887 http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADP003887 en eng http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADP003887 APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE DTIC AND NTIS *ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION *RADIO LINKS *SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS ATMOSPHERIC ATTENUATION SCINTILLATION HIGH ALTITUDE SPACE DIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS CROSS POLARIZATION COMMUNICATION SATELLITES SIGNAL PROCESSING NORWAY POLAR REGIONS SNOW RADIO WAVES OTS(Orbital Test Satellite) Sleet NATO furnished Component Reports Text 1984 ftdtic 2016-02-19T17:12:19Z This paper describes experiments and results obtained from propagation measurements with the Orbital Test Satellite (OTS) at the Arctic islands of Spitzbergen (78 N). The elevation angle of the satellite was 3.2 deg and the frequency 11.8 GHz. The experiments carried out included measurements of atmospheric scintillations, cross-polarisation discrimination and space diversity improvements. The measurements showed that the distributions of the received satellite beacon amplitude can be approximated by Rice-distributions. Large diversity gain was obtained by using horizontal spacing of 1 km. A wideband (TV) transmission experiment was also performed with good result. (Author) This article is from 'Characteristics of the Lower Atmosphere Influencing Radio Wave Propagation: Conference Proceedings Symposium of the Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Panel (33rd) Held at Spatind, Norway on 4-7 October 1983,' AD-A145 046. p5-1-5-12. Text Arctic Spitzbergen Defense Technical Information Center: DTIC Technical Reports database Arctic Norway |
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*ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION *RADIO LINKS *SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS ATMOSPHERIC ATTENUATION SCINTILLATION HIGH ALTITUDE SPACE DIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS CROSS POLARIZATION COMMUNICATION SATELLITES SIGNAL PROCESSING NORWAY POLAR REGIONS SNOW RADIO WAVES OTS(Orbital Test Satellite) Sleet NATO furnished Component Reports |
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*ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION *RADIO LINKS *SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS ATMOSPHERIC ATTENUATION SCINTILLATION HIGH ALTITUDE SPACE DIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS CROSS POLARIZATION COMMUNICATION SATELLITES SIGNAL PROCESSING NORWAY POLAR REGIONS SNOW RADIO WAVES OTS(Orbital Test Satellite) Sleet NATO furnished Component Reports Gutteberg,O. Measurements of Atmospheric Effects on Satellite Links at Very Low Elevation Angle |
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*ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION *RADIO LINKS *SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS ATMOSPHERIC ATTENUATION SCINTILLATION HIGH ALTITUDE SPACE DIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS CROSS POLARIZATION COMMUNICATION SATELLITES SIGNAL PROCESSING NORWAY POLAR REGIONS SNOW RADIO WAVES OTS(Orbital Test Satellite) Sleet NATO furnished Component Reports |
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This paper describes experiments and results obtained from propagation measurements with the Orbital Test Satellite (OTS) at the Arctic islands of Spitzbergen (78 N). The elevation angle of the satellite was 3.2 deg and the frequency 11.8 GHz. The experiments carried out included measurements of atmospheric scintillations, cross-polarisation discrimination and space diversity improvements. The measurements showed that the distributions of the received satellite beacon amplitude can be approximated by Rice-distributions. Large diversity gain was obtained by using horizontal spacing of 1 km. A wideband (TV) transmission experiment was also performed with good result. (Author) This article is from 'Characteristics of the Lower Atmosphere Influencing Radio Wave Propagation: Conference Proceedings Symposium of the Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Panel (33rd) Held at Spatind, Norway on 4-7 October 1983,' AD-A145 046. p5-1-5-12. |
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Measurements of Atmospheric Effects on Satellite Links at Very Low Elevation Angle |
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Measurements of Atmospheric Effects on Satellite Links at Very Low Elevation Angle |
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Measurements of Atmospheric Effects on Satellite Links at Very Low Elevation Angle |
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Measurements of Atmospheric Effects on Satellite Links at Very Low Elevation Angle |
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Measurements of Atmospheric Effects on Satellite Links at Very Low Elevation Angle |
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measurements of atmospheric effects on satellite links at very low elevation angle |
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1984 |
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