The land mobile earth-space channel: SISO to MIMO modeling from L- to Ka-bands

IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 44-53

  Arapoglou, Pantelis Daniel ^a   Michailidis, Emmanouel T ^b   Panagopoulos, Athanasios D ^c   Kanatas, Athanasios G ^d   Prieto Cerdeira, Roberto ^e  

^a ESA/European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC)   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Digital Systems ^*  (Greece)

^c IEEE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^e CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; HIGH ALTITUDE PLATFORM; LAND MOBILE; MOBILE SATELLITE; SPACE AGENCY; SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EARTH (PLANET);

EID: 79957780113     PISSN: 15566072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MVT.2011.940794     Document Type: Article

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