We present an overview of the contents of the text having the above title and which is now in the form of a preliminary document titled, 'Propagation Handbook for Land-Mobile-Satellite Systems-Preliminary.' At this writing the text is undergoing peer review, and the final revised manuscript will be published in the near future as a NASA document. The text was inspired by a series of Land-Mobile-Satellite System (LMSS) experiments by the authors and other investigators at UHF and L-Band. The rationale for its writing is to place in a single document an overview of the previous propagation related salient experimental and modeling results pertaining to LMSS scenarios. It is apparent that LMSS propagation at UHF and L-Band can be seriously degraded because of attenuation (e.g., greater than 10 dB) caused by roadside tree shadowing. The extent of attenuation is shown to depend on such factors at the elevation angle to the satellite, the bearing of the line-of-signt path to the satellite relative to the line of roadside trees, the side of the road in which the vehicle is driven, the season, and the frequency. Multipath effects during line-of-sight communications are shown to cause less serious fading (e.g., smaller than 3 dB for 90 percent of the driving distance).


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    Title :

    An overview of the text propagation effects for land-mobile-satellite systems: Experimental and modeling results


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    Publication date :

    1991-07-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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