Three-Site Space-Diversity Experiment at 20 GHz Using ACTS in the Eastern United States

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 970-979

  Goldhirsh, Julius ^a,b   Musiani, Bert H ^a   Dissanayake, Asoka W ^b   Lin, Kuan Ting ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Image Processing Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth satellite propagation; Rain attenuation; Rain attenuation statistics; Site diversity; Space diversity

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ESTIMATION; GAIN MEASUREMENT; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; RAIN;

ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY SATELLITE (ACTS); RAIN FADE DISTRIBUTIONS;

FADING (RADIO);

EID: 0031169346     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.598419     Document Type: Article

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