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    Time correlation used to improve time diversity gain of rainfall prediction
    (2018-01-01) ;
    Fukuchi, Hajime
    Correlation of the rainfall rate with time depends on geography, environment, and the type of rainfall. In this letter, we consider the use of such a correlation to improve the time diversity gain of a system that predicts rainfall over Japan. From a rain may with 4 years of data, we selected 43 locations throughout mainland Japan, and from these data, we derived the cumulative time percentage, the diversity gain from a time diversity method using 10 to 120 min delays, and the correlation from a time series of rainfall. This information is used to improve the prediction of rainfall. Root-mean-square errors show an improvement in the diversity gain.
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    Direction dependence factor in site diversity design for Kanto area, Japan
    (2017-01-01) ;
    Fukuchi, H.
    Site diversity method has been used to mitigate the effect of rain attenuation since the beginning of satellite communication era. A distance in site diversity method is designed as short as possible to avoid the effect of rain attenuation at the same time. To achieve more accuracy and reliability in the site diversity design, we propose the spatial correlation factor evaluated from rain gauge network in Kanto area, Japan. The spatial correlation results show that the direction dependent factor should be taken into account in the site diversity gain formula.
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    Estimation of Cloud Attenuation over Bangkok, Thailand Based on an ITU-R Model
    (2019-10-01)
    Sookhawattako, Paphawarin
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    Youngthongkham, Patamawadee
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    Prasopbuchatham, Pannita
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    We estimated satellite signal degradation by cloud. Cloud attenuation over Bangkok, Thailand, was estimated with an International Telecommunication Union Radiocommunication sector (ITU-R) model. The estimation was done at several high frequency bands: Ku, Ka and Q/V band with a variety of antenna elevation angles at the ground station of THAICOM satellite. According to the ITU-R model, the worst possible case of cloud attenuation over Thailand in Ku band would be 0.6 dB but in V band could be up to 9 dB. In the Ka band, cloud attenuation was the worst for Singapore, followed by Japan, Thailand and Italy. This estimation scheme may benefit new developers of satellites and their ground stations.
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    Design and development of a high-and-low-altitude air observation system for rainmaking process in Thailand
    Thailand has been known as a top agricultural exporter in the world. But in every year, we miss a lot of opportunities to export some agricultural products due to drought condition. In the years 2017 and 2018, the areas in risk of a drought crisis were 47 areas throughout the whole country amounting to around 1.5 million acres. There was not enough water to grow plants in these areas. As a matter of fact, Thailand is located near the equator which has more cumulative rainfall volume than any other areas in the world. Still, drought crisis happens every year. One of the reasons behind this may be lack of valid predictive information. Weather information is very important for an agricultural country. Thailand has not invested sufficiently in building an effective weather sensor network. A compromise has been made by employing high technology to produce rain in specific areas instead to alleviate drought crisis. This work was a design and development of a high-and-low-altitude air observation system suitable for rainmaking process in Thailand that aimed to reduce the import of advanced and expensive technology.
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    Design and Development of Effective Radiosonde for Rainmaking Process in Thailand
    Weather information is very useful to many activities in every country such as aeronautical, meteorological and rainmaking. Thailand is located near the equator that makes the weather in this region vary a lot and more severe than in another areas. Thailand also exports a lot of agricultural products to serve people globally. Oftentimes, rain does not fall on an intended area like an area round a dam, hence there is not enough water to provide to farmers. This work is a part of a goal to design and develop a weather observation system suitable for rainmaking in Thailand.
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    Comparison of spatial correlation between Japan and Thailand
    Site diversity is the one technique that has been used to reduce the rain attenuation effect for long time ago. Since the past, we just located the site diversity far away from the main site and thought that can be completely reduced the rainfall effect, but it does not. To improve this idea, in this paper, we propose another factor as call spatial correlation in order to design the location of site diversity more accuracy. We evaluate the spatial correlation for Japan and Thailand to confirm that the spatial correlation is totally different in each area and we should include this factor into the site diversity gain formula.
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    Cansat design and their applications
    (2018-01-01)
    Piatong, Atiwat
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    Sirisestanun, Aonjira
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    Chiangchin, Supachai
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    Apisakulroj, Suwijak
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    Suwat, Witsanu
    CanSat is a simulation model used in actual satellite working in the space. It has been presented for almost 20 years. The development of CanSat is based on educational proposes, and its design can be multiple depending on associated educational attainments [1]-[2]. Most developed countries give priority to develop the literacy of space technology in their students since secondary school in which the CanSat design is utilized as one tool to acquire the understanding of the satellite operation. The main objective of this paper is to design the CanSat for competition in 2018. The mission of the competition has been changing over the year to challenge competitors in the field of space engineering. Normally, base requirements may limit certain design factors such as the total mass of the CanSat, the rate of transmission once per second, the use of XBEE for telemetry at 2.4 GHz or 900 MHz and the cost of the CanSat that should be under 1000 USD. However, the competitors are allowed to design other attributes of the CanSat to achieve a competent one. The body of the proposed CanSat will consist of sensors subsystem and power subsystem. We will choose appropriate sensors by considering the cost and main features of our design. Basically, sensors for satellite used to collect data relevant to its surrounding environment and our sensor subsystem consists of a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a pressure sensor, an altitude sensor, a GPS sensor, a magnetometer sensor and an additional camera module. Some sensors are integrated as one component to make the CanSat more lightweight and cost effective. Regarding the feature of a CanSat for collecting environment data which is very useful to apply for the weather observation system, we will develop a CanSat to operate similarly to a radiosonde. Hopefully, it can be used as a smart radiosonde for the rainmaking project in our country.