Handbook of Satellite Applications - Pelton, Joseph N.; Madry, Scott; Camacho-Lara, Sergio; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Chapter 1: Satellite Applications Handbook: The Complete Guide to Satellite Communications, Remote Sensing, Navigation, and Meteorology -- Chapter 2: Satellite Communications Overview -- Chapter 3: History of Satellite Communications -- Chapter 4: Space Telecommunications Services and Applications -- Chapter 5: Satellite Orbits for Communications Satellites -- Chapter 6: Fixed Satellite Communications: Market Dynamics and Trends -- Chapter 7: Satellite Communications Video Markets: Dynamics and Trends -- Chapter 8: Mobile Satellite Communications Markets: Dynamics and Trends -- Chapter 9: An Examination of the Governmental use of Military and Commercial Satellite Communications -- Chapter 10: Economics and Financing of Communications Satellites -- Chapter 11: Satellite Communications and Space Telecommunications Frequencies -- Chapter 12: Regulatory Process for Communications Satellite Frequency Allocations -- Chapter 13: Satellite Radio Communications Fundamentals and Link Budgets -- Chapter 14: Satellite Communications Modulation and Multiplexing -- Chapter 15: Satellite Transmission, Reception and On-Board Processing Signaling and Switching -- Chapter 16: Satellite Communications Antenna Concepts and Engineering -- Chapter 17: Satellite Antenna Systems Design and Implementation Around the World -- Chapter 18: Satellite Earth Station Antenna Systems and System Design -- Chapter 19: Technical Challenges of Integration of Space and Terrestrial Systems -- Chapter 20: Satellite Communications Regulatory, Legal and Trade Issues -- Chapter 21: Trends and Future of Satellite Communications -- Chapter 22: Introduction to Satellite Navigation Systems -- Chapter 23: Global Navigation Satellite Systems: Orbital parameters, time and space reference systems and signal structures -- Chapter 24: International Committee on GNSS -- Chapter 25: Current and Future GNSS and their Augmentation Systems -- Chapter 26: Introduction and History of Space Remote Sensing -- Chapter 27: Electromagnetic Radiation Principles and Concepts as Applied to Space Remote Sensing -- Chapter 28: Astronaut Photography: Handheld Camera Imagery from Low Earth Orbit -- Chapter 29: Electro-optical and Hyper-spectral Remote Sensing -- Chapter 30: Operational Applications of Radar Images -- Chapter 31: Libar Remote Sensing -- Chapter 32: Digital Image Acquisition: Preprocessing, and Data Reduction -- Chapter 33: Digital Image Processing: Post- Processing, and Data Integration -- Chapter 34: Remote Sensing Data Applications -- Chapter 35: Geographic Information Systems and Geomatics -- Chapter 36: Introduction to Space Systems for Meteorology -- Chapter 37: United States Meteorological Satellite Program -- Chapter 38: EUMETSAT Geostationary Meteorological Satellite Programs -- Chapter 39: International Meteorological Satellite Systems -- Chapter 40: Overview of the Spacecraft Bus -- Chapter 41: Telemetry, Tracking, and Command (TT&C) -- Chapter 42: Lifetime Testing, Redundancy, Reliability and Mean Time to Failure -- Chapter 43: Ground Systems for Satellite Application Systems for Navigation, Remote Sensing and Meteorology -- Chapter 44: Common Elements versus Unique Requirements in Various Types of Satellite Applications Systems -- Chapter 45: Launch Vehicles and Launch Sites -- Chapter 46: Orbital Debris and the Sustainability of Space Operations -- Chapter 47: Space Weather and Hazards to Application Satellites -- Appendix 1: The World's Launch Sites -- Appendix 2: Major Launch Systems Available Globally -- Appendix 3a: Global Communication Satellite Systems -- Appendix 3b: US Domestic Communications Satellite Systems.
Keywords: Aerospace engineering; Astronautics; Physics; Remote sensing; Computer organization; Electrical engineering; Space sciences; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Applied and Technical Physics; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Communications Engineering, Networks; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).