DEFINITION:

Covering technologies and techniques related to propagation models and modelling techniques, interference modelling and experimentation, wave interaction modelling, and associated retrieval algorithms and models. Applications are telecommunications, navigation, remote sensing (both for Earth and planets), TT&C and payload data transfer.

(Source: ESA TD 7B)

SUBDOMAINS:

1. Wave Interaction: Covering modelling of wave interactions for passive and active microwave and optical remote sensing of atmosphere, surface and subsurface features of Earth and planets. Retrieval algorithms.
2. Wave Propagation: Covering propagation and interference models and their validation at microwave and optical frequencies through Earth and planetary atmosphere, stratosphere, ionosphere. Microwave propagation in urban and indoor environments. Link budgets in complex propagation environments.