Radio Occultations Using Earth Satellites
A Wave Theory Treatment
(Sprache: Englisch)
the wave theory foundations of today's radio occultation techniques
Forty years ago, the premier radio occultation problem was how to profile the atmosphere and radius of Mars using signals sent by the Mariner 4 spacecraft. Researchers then could...
Forty years ago, the premier radio occultation problem was how to profile the atmosphere and radius of Mars using signals sent by the Mariner 4 spacecraft. Researchers then could...
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the wave theory foundations of today's radio occultation techniquesForty years ago, the premier radio occultation problem was how to profile the atmosphere and radius of Mars using signals sent by the Mariner 4 spacecraft. Researchers then could rely on ray theory-based techniques for accurate analysis of the thin, uniform Martian atmosphere. Today's radio occultation challenges mostly involve communications platforms-and related data, instrument systems, and applications-in the Earth's own atmosphere. To deal with the density and complexity of this multilayered medium, an analytical framework that goes beyond ray theory is needed.
Setting the cutting edge for the field, Radio Occultations Using Earth Satellites: A Wave Theory Treatment develops a purely wave-theoretic approach to occultation analysis. This approach yields more nuanced results than either ray or hybrid (ray/wave) methodologies offer, and proves suitable for the many variables at work in today's problems.
This groundbreaking text provides:
* An introduction to the general theory of radio occultations
* Development of ray theory and scalar diffraction treatments of radio propagation processes
* Development of a wave theoretic treatment of the above wave propagation processes
* The correspondence between wave and ray theories
* A discussion of how to use a wave-theoretic approach to infer the refractive properties of the propagation medium from a time series set of observations of the propagated wave's phase and amplitude
A comprehensive resource that clearly defines the latest topics and methodologies, Radio Occultations Using Earth Satellites is a must-have text for engineers, scientists, students, and managers in satellites communications, navigation, deep space and planetary exploration, aerospace, atmospheric science, physics, and engineering.
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- Foreword- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Radio Occultation Using Earth Satellites Background and Overview
- Chapter 2. Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves from a Spherical Boundary Using a Thin Phase Screen Model and Scalar Diffraction Theory
- Chapter 3. Scattering from a Large Transparent Sphere Based on Maxwell's Equations: Mie Scattering Theory
- Chapter 4. Wave Propagation in a Stratified Medium: The Thin-Film Approach
- Chapter 5. Propagation and Scattering in a Spherical-Stratifield Refracting Medium
- Chapter 6. The Inverse Problem: Using Spectral Theory to Recover the Atmospheric Refractivity Profile
- Appendix A: Miscellaneous Derivations
- Appendix B: Caustic Surfaces
- Appendix C: Multiple Ray Path Separation Altitudes
- Appendix D: Third-Order Stationary Phase Theory
- Appendix E: Bending by a Gaussian Electron Density Distribution
- Appendix F: The Effect of Cycle Slips on Recovered Refractivity
- Appendix G: Using the Sommerfeld-Watson Transformation
- Appendix H: Characteristic Matrix in a Stack of Airy Layers
- Appendix I: Field Equations in a Stratified Medium
- Appendix J: Conditions for Near-Equivalence Between dG^t (v)/dv and ã(v,v), and Between d^2G^t (v)/ dv^2 and dã(v,v)/dv
- Glossary of Terms
- Acronyms
Autoren-Porträt von William G. Melbourne
WILLIAM G. MELBOURNE is a researcher at the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where, for over forty years, he has led many research programs. He is also the former Deputy Manager of the Telecommunications Science and Engineering Division in that institution.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: William G. Melbourne
- 2004, 1. Auflage, 656 Seiten, Maße: 23,9 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 0471712221
- ISBN-13: 9780471712220
Sprache:
Englisch
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