Design of a Ka-Band Propagation Terminal for Atmospheric Measurements in Polar Regions
This paper describes the design and performance of a Ka-Band beacon receiver developed at NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) that will be installed alongside an existing Ka-Band Radiometer [2] located at the east end of the Svalbard Near Earth Network (NEN) complex. The goal of this experiment is to c...
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ftnasantrs:oai:casi.ntrs.nasa.gov:20160010262 2023-05-15T18:29:45+02:00 Design of a Ka-Band Propagation Terminal for Atmospheric Measurements in Polar Regions Zemba, Michael J. Houts, Jacquelynne R. Nessel, James A. Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available April 10, 2016 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20160010262 unknown Document ID: 20160010262 http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20160010262 No Copyright CASI Communications and Radar GRC-E-DAA-TN29482 European Conference on Antennas and Propagation; 10-15 Apr. 2016; Davos; Switzerland 2016 ftnasantrs 2019-07-20T23:46:51Z This paper describes the design and performance of a Ka-Band beacon receiver developed at NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) that will be installed alongside an existing Ka-Band Radiometer [2] located at the east end of the Svalbard Near Earth Network (NEN) complex. The goal of this experiment is to characterize rain fade attenuation to improve the performance of existing statistical rain attenuation models. The ground terminal developed by NASA GRC utilizes an FFT-based frequency estimation [3] receiver capable of characterizing total path attenuation effects due to gaseous absorption, clouds, rain, and scintillation by directly measuring the propagated signal from the satellite Thor 7. Other/Unknown Material Svalbard NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Svalbard |
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This paper describes the design and performance of a Ka-Band beacon receiver developed at NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) that will be installed alongside an existing Ka-Band Radiometer [2] located at the east end of the Svalbard Near Earth Network (NEN) complex. The goal of this experiment is to characterize rain fade attenuation to improve the performance of existing statistical rain attenuation models. The ground terminal developed by NASA GRC utilizes an FFT-based frequency estimation [3] receiver capable of characterizing total path attenuation effects due to gaseous absorption, clouds, rain, and scintillation by directly measuring the propagated signal from the satellite Thor 7. |
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Design of a Ka-Band Propagation Terminal for Atmospheric Measurements in Polar Regions |
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Design of a Ka-Band Propagation Terminal for Atmospheric Measurements in Polar Regions |
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Design of a Ka-Band Propagation Terminal for Atmospheric Measurements in Polar Regions |
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Design of a Ka-Band Propagation Terminal for Atmospheric Measurements in Polar Regions |
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Design of a Ka-Band Propagation Terminal for Atmospheric Measurements in Polar Regions |
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design of a ka-band propagation terminal for atmospheric measurements in polar regions |
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