Improved method for prediction of rain attenuation in terrestrial links

Electronics Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 683-684

  García, N A Pérez ^a   Da Silva Mello, L A R ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR CORRECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIZATION; RADIO SYSTEMS;

ITU-R METHOD; POLARISATION PARAMETERS; RAIN ATTENUATION; TERRESTRIAL LINKS;

RAIN;

EID: 2942702144     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20040464     Document Type: Article

References (7)

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2. ITU-R Recommendation P.530-10: 'Propagation data and prediction methods required for the design of terrestrial line-of-sight systems', International Telecommunication Union, 2001
3. Silva Mello, L.A., Costa, E., and Souza, R.S.L.: 'Rain measurements at 15 and 18 GHz', Electron. Lett., 2002, 38, (4), pp. 197-198
4. ITU-R Study Group 3 Data Banks: 'DBSG5', February 1997, available at http://www.itu.int/home/index.html
5. ITU-R Recommendation P.838-1: 'Specific attenuation model for rain for use in prediction methods', International Telecommunication Union, 1999
6. Garcia, N.A.P.: 'Modelling of rain attenuation in point-to-point and point-to-multipoint links', PhD Thesis, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, May 2003 (in Portuguese)
7. ITU-R Recommendation P.311-10: 'Acquisition, presentation and analysis of data in studies of tropospheric propagation', International Telecommunication Union, 2001