Characteristics of Fading on Low-Elevation Angle Earth-Space Paths with Concurrent Rain Attenuation and Scintillation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1991, Pages 657-661

  Karasawa, Yoshio ^a   Matsudo, Takashi ^a  

^a KDDI R AND D LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS - FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MICROWAVES - PROPAGATION IN TROPOSPHERE; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; KU-BAND LOW-ELEVATION EARTH-SPACE PATHS; RAIN ATTENUATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION; YAMAGUCHI EXPERIMENT;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0026154187     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.81495     Document Type: Article

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