Mobile Satellite Communications (Artech House Mobile Communications Library) - Hardcover

Shingo Ohmori; Hiromitsu Wakana; Seiichiro Kawase

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0890068437 ISBN 13: 9780890068434

Publisher: Artech House Publishers, 1997

Synopsis

This is the first book solely devoted to examining the advanced systems that allow callers to make successful satellite links from moving vehicles on the ground, sea, or in the air. It examines the history of mobile satellite communications as well as their key technologies, offering a complete discussion of mobile satellite orbital dynamics.

The authors take an easy-to-understand approach to the satellite position determination principle, and provide a compact, practical procedure for making orbit calculations. They explore vehicle antennas, their requirements, gain, beam width, phased arrays, and satellite tracking, and discuss signal propagation problems and counter methods in marine, aeronautical and land environments. The book also looks ahead to forthcoming technologies, including satellite phone systems using both geostationary and non-geostationary orbits.

About this title

About the Author

Shingo Ohmori, Hiromitsu Wakana and Seiichiro Kawase are all affiliated with the Communications Research Laboratory in Japan and were extensively involved in the Engineering Test Satellite Five (ETS-V), one of the world's first experiments in mobile satellite communications. Dr. Ohmori is director of the Kashima Space Research Center, and holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Thohoku.

Edition details

• Publisher: Artech House Publishers
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0890068437
• ISBN 13: 9780890068434
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 466