Dataset
ITALSAT radio propagation measurements at 50GHz in the United Kingdom
Abstract
Measurements of troposhperic attenuation (excess and total) made at Sparsholt in Hampshire, UK using the ITALSAT satellite F1 beacon signal at 50 GHz.
ITALSAT F1 (owned and operated by the Italian Space Agency) was in geostationary orbit at 13 degrees east, and it could be seen from the receiving station at an elevation angle of 30 degrees. The received signal was vertically polarised and was sampled once a second. North-south tracking of the satellite with the beacon receiver maintained ~20dB of dynamic range thought of the measurement period.
The method applied to remove the nonatmospheric changes of the beacon signal and to establish the reference level from which to measure the excess and total attenuation is described in [Ventouras et.al., Long-term statistics of tropospheric attenuation from the Ka/U band ITALSAT satellite experiment in the United Kingdom, Radio Sci.,41,RS2007,doi:10.1029/2005RS003252]. The accuracy of fade level retrieval is estimated to be ~+/-0.5dB
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Data are prepared by Chilbolton Facility for Atmospheric and Radio Research (CFARR) staff prior to submission to BADC for archiving. |
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Data are checked by CFARR staff prior to submission to BADC
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Data are netCDF formatted
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| Callaghan, S. (2014) Datasets: From Creation to Publication. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 3–9. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08425-1_1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08425-1_1 |
| Callaghan, S. (2014) Datasets: From Creation to Publication. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 3–9. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08425-1_1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14226-5_1 |
Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
| ITALSAT 50GHz receiver | Deployed on: Sparsholt College, Hampshire, UK |
| Output Description | None |
- units: dB
- long_name: attenuation relative to clear sky. It does not include gaseous attenuation
- var_id: excess_attenuation
- units: dB
- long_name: attenuation relative to vacuum. It includes all the propagation loss
- var_id: total_attenuation
- long_name: quality of both excess and total attenuation values
- var_id: flag
- long_name: time
- var_id: time
- units: seconds
Co-ordinate Variables
Temporal Range
1997-03-31T23:00:00
2000-12-31T00:00:00
Geographic Extent
51.0667° |
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-1.4330° |
-1.4330° |
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51.0667° |