The effects of tropical weather on radio-wave propagation over foliage channel

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 4023-4030

  Meng, Yu Song ^a   Lee, Yee Hui ^a   Ng, Boon Chong ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Forest; Propagation; Ultrahigh frequency (UHF) and weather; Very high frequency (VHF)

Indexed keywords

COMBINED EFFECT; CONTINUOUS WAVES; DYNAMIC PROPERTY; FOREST; K FACTOR; PROPAGATION; RICIAN DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL EFFECTS; TEMPORAL FADING; THEORETICAL MODELS; TROPICAL FOREST; ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY; ULTRAHIGH FREQUENCY (UHF) AND WEATHER; VERY HIGH FREQUENCY; VERY HIGH FREQUENCY (VHF); WAVE FORMS; WEATHER EFFECT;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; RAIN; TROPICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FADING (RADIO);

EID: 70350217245     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2009.2021480     Document Type: Article

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