資料9-F
September 15, 2017
Activity Report of URSI-F
Reported by Y. Maekawa (Chair)
1. Commission meetings in the period of April 2017 – Septemer 2017(For more detail, please see http://ursi-f.nict.go.jp/)(1)

No. 613 Meeting
Date: April 26, 2017

Place: Tohoku University (Miyagi)

Four papers were presented:
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A Study of 3D Measurement of Synthetic Aperture Radar Images Using Stereo Vision
Researches in Numerical Simulation of Short Wave Propagation with Account for Global 3D Models ofIonosphere and Terrestrial Magnetic Field
On the Use of EM Propagation and GB-SAR Interferometry to Estimate the Atmosphere Phase Delay in a
Scene
Estimation of Cross-Polarization Discrimination of Ka-band Satellite Communication Signals inThunderstorm Events

No. 614 Meeting
Date: May 18-19, 2017

Place: Hotel MERIEGES (Miyazaki)

This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of IEICE Technical Committee on AP and IEEE AP-S Fukuoka
Chapter. Four papers relevant to the field of URSI-F were presented:
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Numerical Examination on Radio Wave Shadowing Properties by a Two-Dimensional Human Body Model
Placed in a Free Space and the Room Model
Proposal on the Channel Model for Massive MIMO based on Measured Propagation Channel
Effect of Configuration of MIMO Base Station Antenna on Cannel Capacity in Street Cell Environment
Polarimetric and Interferometric Analyses of Earthquake Damage areas by Using Synthetic Aperture Radar

For more details, please see:(3)

No. 615 Meeting
Date: May 31, 2017

http://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/jpn/

Place: The University of Electro-Communication (Tokyo)

Four papers were presented:
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Electromagnetic Precursory Phenomena associated with the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake
Thundercloud Electric Field Fine Structure and Lightning Initiation in Subcritical Electric Field
K-Factor of Nakagami-Rice Distribution estimated by Moment-Method in analyzing Received Power Data
Measured in Wireless LAN in an Indoor Office - Based on Computer Experiment to find the optimum
number of data for the Moment-Method - Size Reduction of Scale Model for Propagation Loss in
Microcell
On Capacity of Multipath Fading Channel (Part 2) - For Application to Adaptive Baseband Radio –No. 616 Meeting
Date: July 26-28, 2017

Place: Nagoya Institute of Technology (Aichi)

This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of IEICE Technical Committee on AP, SANE. SAT, and IEEE
AP-S Nagoya Chapter. Eight papers relevant to the field of URSI-F were presented:
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Estimation of Cross-Polarization Discrimination Degradation of Ka-band Satellite Communication Signals
due to Lightning Discharges
A Study on Rain Attenuation Characteristics of Ku-Band Up- and Down-Link Satellite Communications inthe Tropical Region

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A Study on Relationship between Ground Wind Velocity around the Earth Station and Rain Attenuation
Observation at 3 Locations in Ku-Band Satellite Communications LinksMillimeter-wave Propagation Characteristics in Urban Environment
Path Loss Frequency Dependency of 2-66 GHz in an Urban Macro Cell Environment
The Delay and Directional Characteristics of Propagation Channels from 3GHz Band to 28GHz Band inIndoor Environment
Radio Propagation Prediction Method with Point Cloud Data in Indoor Office Environments for 26 to 66
GHz Bands
Path Loss Characteristics of Human Bodies Blockage Considering Multi-Path in Outdoor Crowded Areas

For more details, please see:(5)

No. 617 Meeting
Date: September 7, 2017

http://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/jpn/

Place: Hiroshima City University (Hiroshima)

Three papers were presented:
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Proposal of Housing-site Human Detection System using Specified Low-power Radio and Evaluation of theRadio Propagation Characteristics
Frequency Characteristics of the Range of 30 MHz - 5 GHz in Micro-Cell for Mobile Propagation
Evaluation of Required Time for Key Generation in Secret Key Agreement Scheme based on Radio Wave
Propagation Characteristics over Non Line-of-Sight Intersections

2. Others
XXXIInd URSI GASS (General Assembly and Science Symposium) was held in August 2017 in Montreal, Canada,and Dr. Motoharu Sasaki (NTT) was elected to be Japanese official member of ECR (Early Career Representative) inURSI-F.