Microwave Engineering: Land & Space Radiocommunications

INDEX

A

Antennas, 9, 18, 129, 214

Atmosphere, 47, 139, 300

Attenuation of propagation, 3, 25, 81

Availability, 282, 339, 383

Azimuth, 184, 397

B

Bandwidth, 125, 150, 340, 403, 415

Beamwidth, 18, 323

Bit Error Ratio (BER), 144, 228, 408

Black body, 108, 130

C

Carrier-to-noise ratio, 148, 161, 228, 408, 411

Clear-air effects, 254

Climate types, 304

Coding, 120, 148

Coherence bandwidth, 340

Common volume, 291, 327, 339, 341

Correlation, 94, 207, 242, 338,

Cross-polarization, 100, 254, 256, 270, 274

Curvature of the radioelectric rays, 59

D

Depolarization, 99

Diffraction, 37, 70, 257, 346, 351, 352

Digital multiplexing, 120

Distance, 185, 397, 398

Diversity, 94, 194, 213, 242, 279, 334, 364

Doppler-Fizeau effect, 416

Downlink path, 408

Ducting, 67, 174

E

Earth station, 405

Effective Earth-radius, 60, 65, 186, 293

Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP), 26, 405

Electromagnetic waves, 1

Elevation angle, 231, 295, 400

Error function, 143

Error probability, 142

F

Fading, 232, 307, 334

Faraday's rotation, 105

Far field, 15

Field strength, 26, 307

Figure of merit, 404

Forward scatter, 291

Free space, 25

Frequency reuse, 273

Fresnel's ellipsoid, 38

G

Gauss's distribution, 66, 112, 311, 343, 384

Gaussian noise, 141

Gray body, 110, 406

Group delay, 154, 237, 340, 418

H

Hydrometeors, 85, ...