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Predicting the arrival of meteors useful for meteor burst communication
Author(s) -
Weitzen Jay A.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
radio science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1944-799X
pISSN - 0048-6604
DOI - 10.1029/rs021i006p01009
Subject(s) - meteoroid , meteor (satellite) , computer science , usable , faraday cage , polarization (electrochemistry) , direction of arrival , remote sensing , meteorology , telecommunications , antenna (radio) , geology , physics , astronomy , chemistry , quantum mechanics , world wide web , magnetic field
Renewed interest in meteor scatter propagation for cummunication applications has created a need for better and more accurate techniques to investigate the complex relationship between the arrival rate of usable meteors and antenna patterns, link parameters, Faraday rotation loss and polarization. In past efforts, the complexity of the models predicting the arrival of meteors was limited by the cost of computing resources on large main‐frame computers. The rapid decrease in computing costs has allowed more advanced and computationally intensive modeling techniques to be applied to meteor burst modeling. This paper surveys the development of previous models and describes a new model which has been developed as a research tool to allow investigation of the relationship between the arrival rate of meteors and antenna patterns, Faraday rotation, polarization and link parameters. Preliminary results from the model are compared to data from several meteor links.