APPLICATION OF PROPAGATION DATA TO VHF SATELLITE COMMUNICATION AND NAVIGATION SYSTEMS

Introduction to VHF satellite navigation and communications systems; Ionospheric limitations on performance on VHF navigation and communication satellite systems; The formation of ionospheric irregularities; Amplitude, phase and angle of arrival fluctuations; Low angle fluctuation; World wide morphology of scintillations; Measurement of total electron content; Effects of horizontal gradients and further considerations of total electron content measurements; World wide morphology of total electron content; Ionospheric multipath; Guided propagation of radio waves in the ionosphere; Experimental results.

• Corporate Authors:

  Advisory Group Aerospace Research and Development

  7 Rue Ancelle
  92 Neuilly-sur-Seine,   France 
• Publication Date: 1970-11

Media Info

• Pagination: 180 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Navigational satellites; Radio wave propagation; Satellite communication; Satellite navigation systems
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00015377
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 13 1973 12:00AM