Quantification and modeling of wet-antenna attenuation for commercial microwave links

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1195-1199

  Schleiss, Marc ^a   Rieckermann, Jorg ^b   Berne, Alexis ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attenuation; microwave links; rain; wet antenna

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; RAIN RATES; SWITZERLAND; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; WET ANTENNAS;

ANTENNAS; RAIN;

MICROWAVE LINKS;

EID: 84879901858     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2236074     Document Type: Article

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