Scintillation effects on total fade distributions for earth-satellite links

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-27

  Salonen, Erkki T ^a   Tervonen, Jouni K ^a   Vogel, W J ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FADING (RADIO); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SATELLITES; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

EARTH SATELLITE LINKS; SCINTILLATION EFFECTS; TOTAL FADE DISTRIBUTIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION;

EID: 0029755311     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.477524     Document Type: Article

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