COST 251 Derived COST Telecommunications Project (Proposed Action)

Presented by Ersin Tulunay

Middle East Technical University, Turkey
E-mail: ersintul@metu.edu.tr

Effects of the upper atmosphere on terrestrial and earth-space communications
Coordinator: R. Hanbaba, France Telecom CNET, Lannion, France
Vice Coordinator: B. Zolesi, Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica, Rome, Italy

Working Group 1 –  Impact of variability of space environment on communications.

• Lj. R. Cander, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot , UK
• I. Stanislawska, Space Research Center, Warsaw, Poland.

Working Group 2 –   Assessment of space plasma effects for satellite applications.

• R. Leitinger, University of Graz, Austria
• P. Spalla, National Research Council, IROE, Florence, Italy

Working Group 3 –  Ionospheric effects on terrestrial communications

• A. Bourdillon, Université de Rennes 1, France
• J. Lastovicka, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Praha, Czech Republic

Working Group 4 – Space plasma effects on Earth-Space and satellite to satellite communications

• S. M. Radicella, Abdus Salam International ICTP, Trieste, Italy
• E. Tulunay, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Objectives:

• To stimulate further cooperation in the ionosphere and plasmasphere prediction and forecasting, including interactive repurcussions on the corresponding standards in this field , taking into account users present and future needs
  
• To perform studies to influence the technical development and the implementation of new communication services, paricularly for advanced Earth-Space and satellite to satellite applications
  
• To develop methods and algorithms to predict and to minimize the effects of ionospheric perturbations and variations on communications
  
• To ensure that the best models over Europe are made available to the ITU-R
  
• To collect additional quantities and types of ionospheric and plasmaspheric data

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