Electromagnetic Scintillation: Volume 1, Geometrical Optics - Hardcover

Wheelon, Albert D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521801982 ISBN 13: 9780521801980

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Electromagnetic Scintillation describes the phase and amplitude fluctuations imposed on signals that travel through the atmosphere. The two volumes of Electromagnetic Scintillation will constitute a modern reference and comprehensive tutorial, treating both optical and microwave propagation and integrating measurements and predictions at each step of the development. This first volume deals with phase and angle-of-arrival measurement errors, accurately described by geometrical optics and will be followed by a second volume on weak scattering. In this book, measured properties of tropospheric and ionsopheric irregularities are reviewed first. Electromagnetic fluctuations induced by these irregularities are then estimated for a wide range of applications.

About this title

Book Description:

Electromagnetic scintillation has emerged as an important branch of applied physics. Scintillation can be observed with the naked eye, for example in the twinkling of stars, and similar phenomena are measured with scientific instruments such as telescopes. Scintillation limits GPS navigation accuracy as well as many military systems. This is a comprehensive reference for astronomers, applied physicists and engineers who are developing and using instruments influenced by scintillation; a forthcoming second volume will cover weak scattering. The volumes that make up Electromagnetic Scintillation will provide a modern, comprehensive reference to subject.

About the Author:

Dr. Albert D. Wheelon has been a visiting scientist for the past decade at the Environmental Technology Laboratory of NOAA in Boulder, Colorado. He holds a BSc degree in engineering science from Stanford University and a PhD in physics from MIT, where he was a teaching fellow and a research associate in the Research Laboratory for Electronics. He has published thirty papers on radio physics and space technology in learned journals.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0521801982
• ISBN 13: 9780521801980
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 474