Statistical Analysis of Scintillation Data,

Abstract

The Nakagami-m distribution has traditionally been used successfully to model the probability characteristics of ionospheric scintillations at UHF. This report investigates the distribution properties of scintillation data in the L-band range. Specifically, the appropriateness of the Nakagami-m and lognormal distributions is tested. Briefly the results confirm that the Nakagami-m is appropriate for UHF but not for L-band scintillations. The lognormal provides a better fit to the distribution of L-band scintillations and is an adequate model allowing for an error of + or - 0.1 or smaller in predicted probability with a sample size of 256. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA111831

Entities

People

  • Joseph P. Noonan
  • Santimay Basu
  • Siong-huat Chua

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Autocorrelation
  • Chi Square Test
  • Data Science
  • Estimators
  • Goodness Of Fit Tests
  • Information Science
  • Ionospheric Scintillation
  • L Band
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Power Spectra
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Sampling
  • Spectra
  • Statistical Algorithms
  • Statistical Analysis

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electronics Engineering
  • Regression Analysis.
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.