Scintillation prediction models compared to measurements on a time base of several days

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1074-1075

  Van De Kamp, M M J L ^a   Tervonen, J K ^a   Salonen, E T ^a   Poiares Baptista, J P V ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Satellite links; Tropospheric EM wave propagation

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CORRELATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; HIGH PASS FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATELLITE LINKS; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

CASSEGRAIN ANTENNA; CUTOFF FREQUENCY; FADE MARGIN SYSTEM; METEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENT; OLYMPUS SATELLITE; TROPOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0030572220     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19960758     Document Type: Article

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