An updated, accessible guide to satellite communications fundamentals and new developments
This thoroughly revised classic guide to satellite communications provides in-depth, textbook style coverage combined with an intuitive, low-math approach. The book covers the latest breakthroughs in global wireless applications, digital television, and Internet access via satellite. Filled with worked-out examples and more than 200 illustrations, the new edition offers a clear, state-of-the-art presentation of all satellite communications topics.
Written by two experienced electrical engineering professors, Satellite Communications, Fifth Edition fully aligns with the objectives of undergraduate and graduate courses in RF/Microwave communications, with training for the needs of the aerospace industry and federal government agencies in mind. Readers will explore orbits and launching methods, satellite and ground SATCOM systems, radio wave propagation, antennas, analog and digital signals, link analysis, and error control coding.
- Expanded to emphasize calculations of signal to noise ratio (SNR) and the importance of SNR calculation losses
- Includes additional online resources for faculty such as problem sets, figure slides, lecture slides, and guide
- Written by three scholars, each with over 40 years of experience
Dennis Roddy (deceased) was professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, and had more than 40 years of experience in both industrial and technical education. He was the author of
Radio and Line Transmission, Volumes 1 and
2;
Introduction to Microelectronics; and
Microwave Technology; and the co-author of
Electronic Communications and
Electronics.W. Linwood Jones, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. He is the director of the Central Florida Remote Sensing Laboratory. He has over 40 years of experience in satellite communications and microwave remote sensing with over 30 years of teaching engineering. Dr. Jones is a life fellow of the IEEE and has received several outstanding educator awards.
David G. Long, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. He is the director of BYU’s Center for Remote Sensing and head of the Microwave Earth Remote Sensing laboratory. He has 40 years of experience in research in microwave remote sensing with over 30 years of teaching engineering. Dr. Long is fellow of IEEE and a co-author of Microwave Radar and Radiometric Sensing.
