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March 19, 2014
Activity Report of URSI-F
Reported by Y. Maekawa (Chair)

1. Commission meetings in the period of November 2013 – March 2014
(For more detail, please see http://ursi-f.nict.go.jp/)(1)

No. 579 Meeting
Date: November 20-22, 2013

Place: Matsue Terrsa (Shimane)This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of IEICE Technical Committees on AP and CS, and IEEE AP-S
Japan Chapter. Twelve papers relevant to the field of URSI-F were presented in the URSI-F special session andother sessions:1.

Estimation of raindrop size distribution from spaceborne radar -- From aircraft experiment to DPR on
Global Precipitation Mission core satellite -2. Throughput performance for field experiments in MU-MIMO Systems
3. Performance Evaluation of Next Generation Airport Surface Communication System at Sendai Airport
4. On parallel transmission using beam forming with narrow beamwidth in LOS-MIMO system
5. Considerations on Prediction Effects of Multi-User MIMO Channels in Time-Varying Environments
6. Experimental Study on Elevation Directional Channel Properties to Evaluate Performance of FD-MIMO atBase Station in Microcell Environment -- Outdoor to Indoor Propagation Environment (O2I Scenario) –7. PSAM QO-STBC Macro-Diversity and Its Evolution
8. Field Experimental Evaluations of Smart Vertical MIMO in LTE-Advanced Downlink
9. Full-dimensional MIMO (FD-MIMO): Opportunities and Challenges
10. DOA Estimation of Multi-band Signals with Frequency Characteristics
11. Analysis of MRC Diversity Characteristics of OFDM where Delay Profile Exceeds the Guard Interval [III]-- Derivation of Key Equations and Summary of Calculation Scheme –12. Multiple APs Simultaneous Transmission Technology with Implicit Feedback Beamforming
For more details, please see: http://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/jpn/(2)

No. 580 Meeting
Date: December 13, 2013
(Tokyo)Place: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

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PiSAR-2 polarimetric images over Niigata area on 2013/08/25
A statistical model for double directional channel model in spherical wave domain
Development of W-band ground-based cloud profiling radar for calibration/evaluation of EarthCARE/CPR

No. 581 Meeting
Date: January 22-24, 2014

Place: Houzan Hall (Kagoshimsa)

This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of IEICE Technical Committee on AP, and IEEE AP-S Fukuoka
Chapter. 17 papers relevant to the field of URSI-F were presented in the special sessions organized for recent
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Evaluation on indoor propagation characteristics for collision detection using MIMO transmission
Cumulative Distribution of Correlation between MIMO Channel Matrix Elements with Movement -Comparison of Distribution with Theoretical and Simulation Values -MIMO Spatial Correlation and Capacity using Ray Trace Method for Low Antenna Height in Urban Area
Experimental evaluation on MIMO sensor using MIMO-OFDM signals
An Experimental Study on Performance Evaluation of 4x2 MIMO channel for Indoor Environment withPropagation Path Shadowing by Moving People305資料7-F
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Study on Shadowing by a Human Body at High Frequency Bands using UTD -- Radio Wave Propagation
Technology for Future Radio Access and Mobile Optical Network -Prediction of Line-of-Sight Propagation Loss Considering Traffic Density in Inter-Vehicle Communication
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A study of correction method for sloping area path loss estimation based on a scale model and actualmeasurements
A Study on Prediction of Angular Power Distribution in Urban Areas -- Distance Characteristics forDistribution Parameters of Departure in Middle-Scale Cities –A study on the effects of rain area motion and ground wind velocity on rain attenuation characteristics inKu-band satellite communications links
Study on Ionospheric Propagation Characteristics of MF Band Waves Observed in the Arctic
Study on Overreach Propagation by Tropospheric Ducting in Terrestrial Digital TV Broadcastings
Improvement of receiving performance by active propagation control in wireless communications
Experimental Study on Channel Properties in the 2GHz Band in Crowded Urban Small-Cell Environment
VHF Band Path Loss Model for Low Antenna Height in Residential Areas
The propagation characteristics in a wireless personal area network
Polarimetric Path Gain Calculation Using Uniform Circular Arrays with Directional Antenna Elements in
Multipath Environments

For more details, please see:(4)

No. 582 Meeting
Date: March 4, 2014

http://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/jpn/
Place: Niigata University (Niigata)

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Doppler FM-CW Polarimetric Atmospheric Radar Technology and Applications (Special lecture by Prof. L.
P. Ligthart of Delft Univ. of Technology)
Application of GB-SAR to Environmental Monitoring and Disaster Mitigation
Rainfall Observation by X-band Polarimtric Airborne SAR, Pi-SAR2
PolInSAR Coherence Estimation Based on Best Normal Matrix Approximation

No. 583 Meeting
Date: March 13, 2014

Place: NTT Yokosuka R & D Center (Kanagawa)

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A GPS Interferometer Scheme Based on Total Recording
Basic Study of MIMO Rank Adaptation in Mobile Propagation Path
Comparative Study of Measurement and Simulation to Identify the Dominant Propagation Mechanisms inIndoor Multipath Channels at 11 GHz
VHF Band Path Loss Model for Low Antenna Height Terminals in Residential Area

2. Others
International Symposium on Antennas and propagation (ISAP) 2013 was held in Nanjing, China. Date: Oct.25-25,
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