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Rain attenuation estimated from radar measurements for mobile satellite systems and based mobile unit terminals

Future satellite mobile communication systems designed for mobile user applications will use extremely high frequency carriers to provide more capacity and smaller equipment. At these frequencies, the extra attenuation due to rain is a primary cause of communications impairment on satellite-earth pa...

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Main Author: Abdul Rahim, Razimah
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2007
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TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
HE Transportation and Communications
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/5775/1/RazimahAbdulRahimMFKE2007.pdf
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spelling my.utm.57752018-08-26T04:42:57Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/5775/ Rain attenuation estimated from radar measurements for mobile satellite systems and based mobile unit terminals Abdul Rahim, Razimah TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering HE Transportation and Communications Future satellite mobile communication systems designed for mobile user applications will use extremely high frequency carriers to provide more capacity and smaller equipment. At these frequencies, the extra attenuation due to rain is a primary cause of communications impairment on satellite-earth paths, especially above 10 GHz. Rain seriously influences the performance of a communications satellite link. A good knowledge of the statistical behavior of rain attenuation in a particular region is vital. The ability of radar to scan a wide area around the radar site and not just a particular path made it a very attractive for many types of investigations. Radar can be used to measure the rainfall rate indirectly. For this study, the 1 km range bin is more useful and thus, the volumetric scan. Measuring of specific attenuation is done using the 1 km range bin for the volumetric scan. An important information in this method that we have to work up and to define in which azimuth angle, elevation angle and the n- range of the attenuation is occurred from the radar station. To get the total rain attenuation path, we have to sum up all the specific attenuation under the rain height. This project focus more on the method of measuring attenuation per unit distance that had been observed using Kluang meteorological radar. This method is also an important parameter for microwave link because it enables the attenuation due to rain to be determined. The information of this method is useful for microwave link applications, designing mobile communication systems and also set up specification of the new meteorological radar. 2007-05 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/5775/1/RazimahAbdulRahimMFKE2007.pdf Abdul Rahim, Razimah (2007) Rain attenuation estimated from radar measurements for mobile satellite systems and based mobile unit terminals. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering.
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topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
HE Transportation and Communications
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HE Transportation and Communications
Abdul Rahim, Razimah
Rain attenuation estimated from radar measurements for mobile satellite systems and based mobile unit terminals
description Future satellite mobile communication systems designed for mobile user applications will use extremely high frequency carriers to provide more capacity and smaller equipment. At these frequencies, the extra attenuation due to rain is a primary cause of communications impairment on satellite-earth paths, especially above 10 GHz. Rain seriously influences the performance of a communications satellite link. A good knowledge of the statistical behavior of rain attenuation in a particular region is vital. The ability of radar to scan a wide area around the radar site and not just a particular path made it a very attractive for many types of investigations. Radar can be used to measure the rainfall rate indirectly. For this study, the 1 km range bin is more useful and thus, the volumetric scan. Measuring of specific attenuation is done using the 1 km range bin for the volumetric scan. An important information in this method that we have to work up and to define in which azimuth angle, elevation angle and the n- range of the attenuation is occurred from the radar station. To get the total rain attenuation path, we have to sum up all the specific attenuation under the rain height. This project focus more on the method of measuring attenuation per unit distance that had been observed using Kluang meteorological radar. This method is also an important parameter for microwave link because it enables the attenuation due to rain to be determined. The information of this method is useful for microwave link applications, designing mobile communication systems and also set up specification of the new meteorological radar.
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author Abdul Rahim, Razimah
author_facet Abdul Rahim, Razimah
author_sort Abdul Rahim, Razimah
title Rain attenuation estimated from radar measurements for mobile satellite systems and based mobile unit terminals
title_short Rain attenuation estimated from radar measurements for mobile satellite systems and based mobile unit terminals
title_full Rain attenuation estimated from radar measurements for mobile satellite systems and based mobile unit terminals
title_fullStr Rain attenuation estimated from radar measurements for mobile satellite systems and based mobile unit terminals
title_full_unstemmed Rain attenuation estimated from radar measurements for mobile satellite systems and based mobile unit terminals
title_sort rain attenuation estimated from radar measurements for mobile satellite systems and based mobile unit terminals
publishDate 2007
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/5775/1/RazimahAbdulRahimMFKE2007.pdf
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