Initial Results from a measurement campaign for low elevation angle links in different environments

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are widely used in civil applications nowadays and resulting photomaps, or aerial monitoring, demand an enormous amount of transmitted data in high frequency links. In the new generation of wireless communication standards, different propagation channel models are recommended for system simulations to develop new hardware. Every channel model needs to be validated by experimental measurement data, from pre-defined scenarios such as urban, suburban, remote or isolated housing estate, open field and vegetation covered area. As reliable data harvesting is a key issue, a low cost measurement campaign is being developed.