Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.