Rain Induced Scintillation Measurement on Satellite Link in Tropical Climate

Author

Islam, Md Rafiqul ; Al-Khateeb, K. ; Mohd Isa, F.N. ; Dao, H. ; Salleh, H.M. ; Ghazali, M.A.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Int. Islamic Univ. Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

fYear

2014

fDate

23-25 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

181

Lastpage

184

Abstract

Attenuation time series were collected to study the rain induced scintillation during September 2011 - August 2012 from MEASAT3 satellite operating at Ku-band. In this paper, scintillation statistics are analyzed in rainy condition extracted manually from 188 rainy events. The scintillation distributions are represented scintillation intensity and amplitude by monthly, seasonal, worst-month and annual distributions. Probability density function (PDF) of scintillation intensity correspondingly agrees to Generalize Extreme Value (GEV) fit. In addition, model validation to the measured data is also provided.

Keywords

electromagnetic wave attenuation; microwave propagation; probability; rain; satellite links; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; Ku-band; MEASAT3 satellite; attenuation time series; generalize extreme value fit; probability density function; rain induced scintillation measurement; satellite link; tropical climate; Abstracts; Attenuation; Computers; Microwave antennas; Rain; Satellite antennas; earth-to-satellite link; rain attenuation; scintillation; tropical climate;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCE.2014.60

Filename

7031631