Rainfall Rate and Rain Attenuation in Ku-Band Satellite Signal in Thailand and Laos

Author

Lakanchanh, D. ; Datsong, A. ; Leelaruji, N. ; Hemmakorn, N.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., King Mongkut´s Inst. of Technol., Bangkok

fYear

2006

Firstpage

3928

Lastpage

3932

Abstract

This paper describes the experiment of rainfall rate and rain attenuation. One year measurement of rainfall rate and rain attenuation of satellite signal on Ku band, downlink of Thaicom 3 at King Mongkut´s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) in Bangkok using 0.5 meter antenna with horizontal polarized and measurement of rainfall rate at National University of Laos (NUOL) in Vientiane and at Paksong in the southern of Laos are investigated, The relation of rainfall rate and rain attenuation on three ground stations are presented. Correlation between rainfall rate and cumulative time are described in monthly and yearly include the comparison of yearly cumulative rainfall rate between measurement and ITU-R model are presented

Keywords

electromagnetic wave absorption; electromagnetic wave polarisation; electromagnetic wave scattering; rain; satellite antennas; ITU-R model; Ku-band satellite signal; Ladkrabang; NUOL; National University of Laos; Paksong; Thaicom 3; Thailand; Vientiane; antenna; correlation; horizontal polarization; rain attenuation; rainfall rate measurement; Antenna measurements; Attenuation measurement; Frequency estimation; Polarization; Rain; Satellite antennas; Satellite broadcasting; Satellite ground stations; Sea measurements; Statistics; Ku-band satellite signal propagation; Rain attenuation; Yearly cumulative distribution function;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SICE-ICASE, 2006. International Joint Conference

Conference_Location

Busan

Print_ISBN

89-950038-4-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SICE.2006.314906

Filename

4108453