Potential of combined spaceborne infrared and microwave radiometry for near real-time rainfall attenuation monitoring along earth-satellite links

International Journal of Satellite Communications

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 385-412

  Marzano, Frank S ^a   Turk, Joseph F ^b   Ciotti, Piero ^c   Di Michele, Sabatino ^d   Pierdicca, Nazzareno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Rain attenuation modelling and prediction; Rainfall fade monitoring and mitigation; Spaceborne infrared and microwave radiometry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIOMETRY; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SENSORS;

INFRARED (IR) RADIOMETRY; PROBABILITY MATCHING TECHNIQUES; SPACEBORNE REMOTE SENSORS;

SATELLITE LINKS;

EID: 0035390445     PISSN: 07372884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sat.676     Document Type: Article

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