RF Performance Predictions for Real Time Shipboard Applications

Abstract

Long-term Goals: Develop electromagnetic propagation models, that perform equally well over land and sea and in the presence of anomalous propagation conditions for both surface and airborne emitters, for use in operational or engineering propagation assessment systems. The specific technical objectives are to: (1) develop a method to extract rainfall data from the tactical scans of the SPS-48 radar and provide the rain data in a form suitable for propagation models such as the Earth-to-Satellite Propagation Model with METOC (ESPM2) and the Advanced Propagation Model (APM); and (2) modify the current statistics-based rain attenuation model within the ESPM2 and the APM to ingest real time rainfall rate data obtained from shipboard radar (SPS-48 initially).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2011
Accession Number
ADA557109

Entities

People

  • Amalia E. Barrios
  • Priya Babu
  • Richard Sprague

Organizations

  • Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Attenuation
  • Coast Guard
  • Data Sets
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Frequency
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Measurement
  • Radar
  • Radio Equipment
  • Rain
  • Rain Gages
  • Shipboard
  • Tactical Radios
  • Transitions
  • United States
  • Virginia

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Radar Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Space