Highlights Concurrent measurement of radio beacon & meteorological parameters was carried out. Scintillation intensity, enhancement & fade models were developed from measured data. Performance of developed model was compared with nine existing scintillation models. The model reflects prediction accuracy & climatological uniqueness of this location. Symmetry of fade and enhancements plus minimal error validate goodness of the model.
Abstract Existing amplitude scintillation prediction models often perform less satisfactorily when deployed outside the regions where they were formulated. This necessitates the need to evaluate the performance of scintillation models developed in one region using data data from other regions while documenting their relative errors. Due to its variation with elevation angle, frequency, other link parameters and meteorological factors, we employed three years (January 2016 to December 2018) of concurrently measured satellite radio beacons and tropospheric weather parameters to develop a location-based amplitude scintillation prediction model over the Earth-space path of Akure (7.17oN, 5.18oE), South-western Nigeria. The satellite beacon measurement used Tektronix Y400 NetTek Analyzer at 1 s integration time while meteorological parameters, namely; temperature, pressure and relative humidity were measured using Davis Vantage Vue weather station at 1 min integration time. Comparative study of the model’s performance with nine (9) existing scintillation prediction models indicates that the best and worst performing models, in terms of root mean square error (RMSE), are the Statistical Temperature and Refractivity (STN) and direct physical and statistical prediction (DPSP) models with values 11.48 and 51.03 respectively. Also, worst month analysis indicates that April, with respective enhancement and fade values of 0.88 and 0.90 dB for 0.01% exceedance, is the overall worst calendar month for amplitude scintillation.
Development and performance evaluation of tropospheric scintillation model on Ku-band satellite link over Akure, Nigeria
Advances in Space Research ; 67 , 5 ; 1612-1622
2020-12-01
11 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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