Satellite Communication Systems

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This book has been compiled from the lecture material of the very successful lEE Vacation School series of the same name. It provides a broad coverage of satellite communications from systems planning and netv/orks to earth-station and spacecraft engineering, enabling techniques of antennas, modulation and coding, propagation etcetera, to satellite applications including communications, military, earth resources and lov/-earth systems. The book differs from others in the same area in presenting the subject in a pragmatic engineering manner. The contributors are all experts in their own subject areas from the United Kingdom and Europe as well as all being practitioners in the field. The book is also characterised by detailed examples of link budgeting and satellite system design, together with a comprehensive account of satellite organisations and a glossary of terms used in satellite communications.
The book is ideal for students of the \ subject in their final year of an... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This book has been compiled from the lecture material of the very successful lEE Vacation School series of the same name. It provides a broad coverage of satellite communications from systems planning and netv/orks to earth-station and spacecraft engineering, enabling techniques of antennas, modulation and coding, propagation etcetera, to satellite applications including communications, military, earth resources and lov/-earth systems. The book differs from others in the same area in presenting the subject in a pragmatic engineering manner. The contributors are all experts in their own subject areas from the United Kingdom and Europe as well as all being practitioners in the field. The book is also characterised by detailed examples of link budgeting and satellite system design, together with a comprehensive account of satellite organisations and a glossary of terms used in satellite communications.
The book is ideal for students of the \ subject in their final year of an •undergraduate or first year of a specialised post-graduate degree.
It is also suitable for practising engineers who are about to enter this field for the first time, or who are already in it but want a broad coverage and a readily accessible reference text.
Professor B.C. Evans BSc PhD CEng
Alec Harley Reeves Professor of Information Systems
University of Surrey
Barry Evans is well known in the field of satellite communications. He currently leads the satellite and space engineering research area at the University of Surrey, which comprises the largest UK academic group covering communication and spacecraft engineering. His current research areas are in on-board processing, payloads, the use of non-geostationary highly elliptical orbits for land-mobile satellites and reduced rate speech processing. At Surrey he has initiated a unique MSc course in satellite communication engineering and this, together with the continuing education courses to industry, provides the major academic training in the United Kingdom. Prior to coming to Surrey he was British Telecom Lecturer/Reader at the University of Essex where his research into dual-polarisation propagation, speech processing (in particular computed form) and Innovative work in domestic satellite systems gave him on international reputation.
He has been a consultant on many satellite projects and has lectured world-wide. From 1974 to 1979 he was satellite systems consultant to Cable & Wireless Ltd. He is Editor of the Interriational Journal of Satellite Communications, a member of the lEE professional group on satellite communications and serves on several CCIR national committees. In addition he is currently a member of the SERC committee on Communication and Space and is a member of the DTI Radio Engineering Board.
He is chairman of the organising committee for the lEE Vacation School on satellite communications systems planning, is author and contributor to three books and has over eighty published papers. He is a director of Surrey Satellite Technology. Vissza