Statistical processing of radiometer data using MATLAB

Future communication systems will operate at frequencies above 20 GHz. Attenuation contributions due to gases and clouds must be considered to predict the availability of communications systems, such as VSATs and others, that will have reduced fade margins. Fade countermeasure techniques´ development and performance will also need higher order statistics for the channel behaviour other than cumulative attenuation distributions. The processing of the measured microwave atmospheric propagation data, or related data, to get meaningful and reliable statistics of the channel is an important task to develop, test and improve modelling. We here describe an implementation and facilities of MATLAB data processing software to derive cumulative distributions, fade and inter-fade occurrences, as well as related statistical results