Symposium on Radio Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing to be Held in Brazil

The 11th Ursi Commission F Triennial Open Symposium On Radio Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing will be held in Rio de Janeiro, from 30 October to 2 November. It is an opportunity to gather the radar image processing and microwave remote sensing community in Brazil.

The eleventh event, organized by a consortium of Brazilian universities and research institutes (UFF, Cetuc/PUC-Rio, IME and Inpe) will build on the success of its antecessors in providing a special forum for the scientific community to discuss the latest results and to identify developing trends.

As the previous ones, it will cover the full range of interests of the URSI Commission F. The high degree of interaction between the Wave Propagation, Communications and Remote Sensing areas is a particular strength that will be preserved and encouraged.

Papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics relating to remote sensing and radio wave propagation:

– Radar image processing, radiometer and optical sensing of land, sea, ice, subsurface and atmosphere;
– Applications on environmental and disaster management;
– Forestry, agriculture and subsurface topography;
– Radar meteorology;
– Doppler radar, SAR, Isar, Insar, Polinsar;
– Propagation aspects of radar remote sensing of buried objects;
– Urban remote sensing;
– Evaluation of orbital and airborne systems;
– Remote sensing of atmosphere and ocean;
– Propagation and scattering in vegetation – remote sensing applications.
– Asymptotic, full wave, numerical and hybrid methods;
– Radio meteorology and climatology, including clear air and precipitation effects;
– Propagation for fixed and mobile terrestrial and satellite services;
– Propagation for position location and navigation services;
– Propagation effects of irregular terrain and buildings;
– Propagation aspects of interference and frequency management;
– Propagation modeling and measurements for Mimo, UWB and FSO applications;
– Propagation for mobile and personal access systems;
– Over and under water propagation;
– Propagation in subsurface and biological media;
– Penetration, coupling and shielding of radio waves;
– Rough surface and random media scattering;
– Propagation and scattering in vegetation;
– Channel measurements and modeling;
– Transient fields and effects.

More informations can be found at http://wwwusers.rdc.puc-rio.br/ursif