資料８－ＦJuly 2009
Activity Report of URSI-F
Reported by Y. Yamaguchi (Chair)
1. Commission meetings in the period of March 2009 – July 2009(For more detail, please see http://www2.nict.go.jp/pub/ursi-f/)(1) No.533 meeting
Date: April 10, 2009 Place: Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka
Five technical papers were presented:

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A study on characteristics of rain attenuation variation for each rain type in Ka-band satellite
communications
A preliminary study on the rain observation by using the TRMM rain radar as a radiometer
Improvement of Rain/No-Rain classification methods for microwave radiometer observations
over the ocean
Multipath angular spread estimation from power spatial correlation
Time-spatial channel model for next generation mobile communication systems - standardizationof IMT-Advanced channel model -(2) No. 534 Meeting
Date: May 21-22, 2009
Place: Kumamoto University, Kumamoto
This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of the IEICE professional groups on AP and IEEE AP-S
Fukuoka Chapter. One paper relevant to the field of URSI-F were presented:

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Ground clutter removal from ground penetrating radar responses using the matching pursuit
algorithm

For more details, please see:
http://www.ieice.org/ken/program/index.php?mode=program&tgs_regid=2a35a74c4ba0858fc6b0232e80ed7ae908abb18472a11d9b26860d4088adb1ee&tgid=AP&layout=&lang=(3) No.535 meeting
Date: June 19, 2009
Place: The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo
Three technical papers were presented:

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A study of spectrum sharing based on capacity conservation ratio using external information
Time-Spatial propagation model in LOS condition for broadband mobile communication
systems
Consideration and proposal on how to create propagation environment for MIMO performance
evaluation of user terminals(4) No.536 meeting
Date: July 8-10, 2009
Place: Otaru City Hall, Hokkaido
This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of the IEICE professional groups on AP, SAT and IEEE AP-S
Japan Chapter. Five papers relevant to the field of URSI-F were presented:

1. A study on the satellite diversity and time delayed diversity techniques in Ku and Ka band satellite
communications links
2. Interference measurement experimentation of mobile base stations using an aircraft in satelliteterrestrial integrated mobile communication systems
3. A study on path shadowing model for inter-vehicle communication in line-of-sight street
environments
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A study on MIMO transmission characteristics in outdoor to indoor radio propagation
environments
A study on keyhole effect of MIMO transmission in outdoor to indoor radio propagation
environments

For more details, please see:
http://www.ieice.org/ken/program/index.php?mode=program&tgs_regid=dddc43d0ef8a813e4915f26ae0766cf6b79bea01ece5b7f7e5de100dc478a653&tgid=AP&layout=&lang=

2. Commission meeting to be scheduled
No.537 Meeting Date: Oct. 3, 2009http://www2.nict.go.jp/pub/ursi-f/#meeting
Place: Toyama city

AP-RASC’10 pre-event = Open symposium of URSI Japan ?
3 Special Lectures are planned (Dr. Yoji Furuhama, Prof. Yoshio Hosoya, Prof. Motoyuki Sato)

3. Others
IGARSS 2011 will be held in Sendai, Japan. The financial support proposal to Science Council of Japan has
accepted.

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