Rain rate and rain attenuation predictions are one of the vital steps to be considered when analyzing a microwave satellite communication links at the Ku and Ka bands. In this paper, tools for the prediction of rain rate and rain attenuation are presented in the form of contour maps for Nigeria using a massive rainfall data bank of 30 years which are taken from measurements made from the coast ...

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Passive microwave remote sensing techniques can be used to monitor freeze/thaw at frozen soil surface. Researches found that the negative spectral gradient at 19GHz and 37GHz was a good criteria for decision of frozen soil[1]. At vegetated area, to make the algorithm simple, vegetation scattering were ignored, only their attenuation were considered, which were kept constant, regardless of veget...

Atmospheric absorption accounts for a significant portion of the signal path loss on the Earth-Space link. The total atmospheric absorption due to Oxygen and water vapour on the path at Ku (12/14 GHz), Ka (20/30 GHz), and V (40/50 GHz) bands was evaluated for communication with Nigeria communication satellite (Nigcomsat1) on both uplink and down link at 0.01 % unavailability of an average year....

The successful design and measurement of high-performance coplanar waveguide (CPW) quadrature hybrid couplers integrated in MCM-D at Ku and Ka-band and Wilkinson power dividers at X-band are discussed in this work. The authors have investigated the feasibility of integrating 3-dB quadrature couplers in the MCM-D technology. Quadrature couplers based on two edge-coupled lines are not practical, ...

As part of the NASA International Polar Year activities, a Ka-band cross-track interferometric synthetic aperture radar recently demonstrated high precision elevation swath mapping capability. This proof-ofconcept instrument was achieved by interfacing antennae and Ka-band electronics with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s L-band UAVSAR. Deployed on the NASA Gulfstream III, initial successful eng...

this paper presents the design and simulation of a typical ka band satellite beacon receiver for propagation experimentation. using satellite beacon signal as a reference signal in satellite wave propagation study, is one of the most important methods. satellite beacons are frequently available for pointing large antennas, but such signals can be used for measuring the effect of natural phenome...

With the consideration of the existing Ka-band satellite channel model in data processing method deficiency, the Ka-band satellite channel propagation characteristic is analyzed and the influence of meteorological factors on the satellite channel is discussed. The channel of meteorological factor principal component is obtained by using the principal component analysis and fuzzy clustering anal...

The 3-D particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of a Ka-band coupled-cavity traveling-wave tube (CCTWT) are shown. The computational analysis of the Ka-band coupled-cavity slow-wave structure was conducted through the use of an electromagnetic PIC code MAGIC3D. The choice of a double-slot staggered RF cavity circuit was made because of a wide frequency bandwidth, moderate interaction impedance, and ...

This paper presents the design and simulation of a typical Ka band satellite beacon receiver for propagation experimentation. Using satellite beacon signal as a reference signal in satellite wave propagation study, is one of the most important methods. Satellite beacons are frequently available for pointing large antennas, but such signals can be used for measuring the effect of natural phenome...