Measurement and Characterisation of Atmospheric Depolarisation on Slant Paths at Ka, Q and V Bands
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Regonesi, Eric; Jorge, Flavio; Riva, Carlo; Rocha, Armando; Martellucci, Antonio
- Source
- 2021 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2021 15th European Conference on. :1-5 Mar, 2021
- Subject
- Aerospace
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Integrated circuits
Rain
Correlation
Atmospheric measurements
Space communications
Statistical distributions
Predictive models
attenuation
depolarisation
depolarisation scaling
Earth-space radiowave propagation
- Language
Spectral-efficient space communication links are impaired by atmospheric depolarisation caused by rain and ice along the Earth-space path. In this contribution three experiments experiencing three different climatological conditions are compared to assess the underlying mechanisms of depolarisation, in particular to evaluate a possible correlation between depolarisation and ice content.