March 8, 2007

 

Activity Report of URSI-F

 

Reported by Y. Yamaguchi (Chair)

 

1. Commission meetings in the period of Dec 2006 – Feb. 2006

   (For more detail, please see http://www2.nict.go.jp/pub/ursi-f/)

 

(1) No.510 meeting

Date: Dec. 17, 2006

Place: NiCT

Three papers were presented:

1.           Polarimetric SAR image analysis using four-component scattering model

2.           Evaluation of polarimetric SAR calibration using point target

3.           On the development of cloud radar on EarthCARE satellite

 

(2) No.511 meeting

Date: Jan. 25-26, 2007

Place: University of Fukui

This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of the IEICE professional groups on AP.

Four papers relevant to the field of URSI-F were presented.

(http://www.ieice.org/ken/program/index.php?mode=program&tgs_regid=5e5b895ef58f0fe8b2308a794f5921e785d11d0e88100e563607749788668bfa&tgid=AP&layout=&lang=)

 

(3) No.512 meeting

Date: March 16, 2007

Place: NTT Yokosuka R&D Center

Three technical presentations were presented:

1.           MIMO Channel Characteristics using Directional Antennas for Transmission between Base Stations in a Street Micro-cell Environment at 5.2-GHz Band

2.           Application of wideband directional channel sounding in the evaluation of DSRC service inside a transportation tunnel

3.           Proposed channel model for static mobile terminal in surround moving environments

 

2. Commission meeting to be scheduled            http://www2.nict.go.jp/pub/ursi-f/#meeting

 

3. Related International Conferences

The 65th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'07-Spring) (Dublin, Ireland, April 23-25, 2007)

2007 IEEE AP-S International Symposium (Honolulu, HI, USA, 10-15 June, 2007)

IGARSS'07 (Barcelona, Spain, June, 2007)

2007 USNC/CNC/URSI North American Radio Science Meeting (Ottawa, Contario, Canada, 7-12 July 2007)

2007 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP 2007) (Niigata, Japan, 20-24 August, 2007)

The 66th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'07-Fall) (Baltimore, USA, October 1-3, 2007)

2007 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC 2007) (Bangkok, Thailand, December, 2007)

APSAR 2006: Technical co-sponsorship with International URSI-F, and URSI-F Japan (next page).