Satellite Communications

Dennis Roddy

570 pages, parution le 01/09/2001

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Résumé

Best choice for complete, current coverage.

Classic guide to satellite communications fundamentals.

Highly regarded for more than a decade as both teaching text and professional reference/tutorial, Satellite Communications has been revised, updated, and expanded to include the hottest applications in a rapidly growing field. Always the most complete and accessible entry point to this dynamic area of engineering, Satellite Communications spotlights practical issues that interest professionals and students alike. The author delivers worked examples that clearly illustrate best methods, and uses a writing style that makes both basics and finer technical points easy to absorb, whether you're in a class or tutoring yourself.

Features:

Authoritative, complete, and readable coverage, from an overview of the field to basic Keplerian theory, launch methods, and practical details of applications
Full descriptions of hardware, including satellite structures, antennas, earth stations, and onboard systems
Cutting-edge applications such as wireless Internet, telephony, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and worldwide broadcasts of digital TV
New information on ATM, TCP/IP, and LEO networking over satellites, mobile systems, and onboard switching
Details on methods, orbits, links, access, signals, modulation, and interference
All examples and problems worked in MathCad, with mathematical complexities pared to a minimum

For total understanding of satellite communications fundamentals--without a slog through dense mathematical abstractions--Dennis Roddy's book is the one to choose. It's a keeper that you'll turn to for answersthroughout your career.

New in this Edition:

Expanded coverage of CDMA
Internet via satellite chapter
Digital TV broadcasting chapter
Expanded section on geostationary orbits
Error correction coding
Preview of coming applications and growth

Contents

Chapter 1: Overview of Satellite Systems
Chapter 2: Orbits and Launching Methods
Chapter 3: The Geostationary Orbit
Chapter 4: Radio Wave Propagation
Chapter 5: Polarization
Chapter 6: Antennas
Chapter 7: The Space Segment
Chapter 8: The Earth Segment
Chapter 9: Analog Signals
Chapter 10: Digital Signals
Chapter 11: Error Control Coding
Chapter 12: The Space Link
Chapter 13: Interference
Chapter 14: Satellite Acess
Chapter 15: Satellite Services and the Internet
Chapter 16: Direct Broadcast Satellite Services
Chapter 17: Satellite Services

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	Dennis Roddy
Parution	01/09/2001
Nb. de pages	570
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1103g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780071371766
ISBN13	978-0-07-137176-6