Acts propagation experiment: attenuation distribution observations and prediction model comparisons

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 879-891

  Crane, Robert K ^a,b   Dissanayake, Asoka W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b Image Processing Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA REFLECTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILLIMETER WAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RAIN; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STATISTICS;

ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY SATELLITE (ACTS); CRANE GLOBAL RAIN ZONE MODELS; CRANE TWO COMPONENT MODELS; DISSANAYAKE, ALLNUTT, AND HAIDARA (DAH) RAIN ATTENUATION MODELS; EMPIRICAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; PREDICTED CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; RICE HOLMBERG RAIN RATE MODELS;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0031166259     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.598411     Document Type: Article

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