Electromagnetic Scintillation: Volume 1, Geometrical Optics

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Albert D. Wheelon has been a visiting scientist for the past decade at the Environmental Technology Laboratory of NOAA in Boulder, Colorado. He holds a BSc degree in engineering science from Stanford University and a PhD in physics from MIT, where he was a teaching fellow and a research associate in the Research Laboratory for Electronics. He has published thirty papers on radio physics and space technology in learned journals. Klappentext Electromagnetic Scintillation describes the phase and amplitude fluctuations imposed on signals that travel through the atmosphere. The two volumes of Electromagnetic Scintillation will constitute a modern reference and comprehensive tutorial, treating both optical and microwave propagation and integrating measurements and predictions at each step of the development. This first volume deals with phase and angle-of-arrival measurement errors, accurately described by geometrical optics and will be followed by a second volume on weak scattering. In this book, measured properties of tropospheric and ionsopheric irregularities are reviewed first. Electromagnetic fluctuations induced by these irregularities are then estimated for a wide range of applications. Zusammenfassung The two volumes that make up this book provide a modern reference and comprehensive tutorial to the subject! treating both optical and microwave propagation. This first volume deals with phase and angle-of-arrival measurement errors. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Waves in random media; 3. Geometrical optics expressions; 4. Single path phase variance; 5. Phase structure function; 6. Time variation of phase; 7. Angle-of-arrival fluctuations; 8. Phase distributions; 9. Field strength moments; Appendices.

Product details

• Authors: Albert D. Wheelon, Wheelon Albert D.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.09.2001
• EAN: 9780521801980
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80198-0
• No. of pages: 474
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / Physics / Electricity, SCIENCE / Physics / Magnetism, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Electronics / General, SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & Light, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Telecommunications, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, SCIENCE / Physics / Electromagnetism, Optical physics, Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism, Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment & methods, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy, Electronics & Communications Engineering, Electricity, electromagnetism and magnetism, Military engineering, Electronics and communications engineering