Proceedings of the Workshop

Active Protection of Passive Radio Services:  towards a concerted strategy

Hotel Panorama, Cagliari, Italy, 28-29 October 2004

edited by L.Mureddu, G.Alvito

 

List of Participants

 

Meeting Report (Jim Cohen)

 

 

PROGRAMME

 

28th October (Scientific and Technical Issues)

 

09.00 -13.00 - Chair:  Jim Cohen

 

09.00 - Opening Welcome: Nichi D’Amico, INAF-OAC Director and SRT Board “Presentation of the SRT Project”

 

1.  Existing frequency allocations and how they are used

 

09.15 - Willem Baan (Astron): “Radio Astronomy in the Twenty First Century” -  PDF (4.5MB) - PPT (28MB)

 

09.50 - Hans Richner (WMO): The needs for protection of frequencies used for  passive sensing in meteorology, climatology and environmental studies” - PDF (1.87MB) - PPT (6.52MB)

 

10.10 - Guy Rochard (Meteo-France): “Passive Microwave Protection” - PDF (4.25MB) - PPT (4.02MB)

 

10.30 - Bernard Lazareff (IRAM): “Millimetre and Submillimetre Wave Astronomy” - PDF (165kB) - PPT (650kB)

 

10.45-11.15  COFFEE BREAK

 

11.15 - Jerome de la Noe (Observatoire de Bordeaux): “Frequency needs for  remote sensing of the middle atmosphere” - PDF (1.47MB) - PPT (10.6MB)

 

2.  Operational issues, interference, emerging threats

 

11.40 - Thomas vonDeak (NASA): “Detection and the impact of man-made interference on EES (passive) sensor operations” - PDF (133kB) - PPT (101kB)

 

12.25 - Vincent Meens (CNES): “The problem of in-band emission in purely passive bands:  some examples with the Ultra Wide Band transmissions” - PDF (564kB) - PPT (1.48MB)

 

13.00-14.30  LUNCH

 

14.30 -17.45  Chair:  Jerome de la Noe

 

14.30 - Robert Wolf (EUMETSAT): “Short Range Radar Issues” - PDF (24.7kB) - PPT (44.5kB)

 

14.50 - Joachim Urban (RSS Chalmers Uni.): “Spaceborne observations of the middle atmosphere at sub-mm wavelengths:  ODIN/SMR and future sensors” - PDF (3.67MB) - PPT(6.07MB)

 

15.10 - Dietrich Feist (Uni. of Berne): “Measurements of atmospheric water vapour at 22 GHz and 183 GHz”

            PDF (1.02MB) 

 

15.35 - Rob Millenaar (Astron): “Interference Mitigation in Radio Astronomy” - PDF (2.1MB) - PPT(10.8MB)

 

16.00-16.30  COFFEE BREAK

 

16.30 - Istvan Fejes (FOMI Satellite Geodetic Observatory): “Interference Monitoring in the Central European GPS Geodynamic Reference Network” - PDF (172MB) - PPT(1.38MB)      

 

16.50 - Titus Spoelstra (CRAF): “Emerging Issues:  interference temperature, PLC, etc”  - PDF (53.6kB) - PPT(185kB)

17.10 - Ryszard Struzak (ITU):  “Emerging stratospheric radio”  - PDF (266kB) - PPT(4.71MB)

 

 

 

29th October (Political and Structural Issues)

 

09.00 -13.00  Chair:  Roberto Ambrosini

 

3.  Existing organizations and how to strengthen them

 

09.00 - Massimo Martinelli (ESF): “The Role of the ESF” - PDF (317kB) - PPT(2.18MB)

 

09.15 - Klaus Ruf (DLR): “Passive Services and the ITU” - PDF (783kB) - PPT(2.93MB)

 

09.40 - Wim van Driel (IUCAF): “IUCAF and the Protection of the Passive Services" - PDF (84kB) - PPT(204kB)

 

10.00 - Edoardo Marelli (ESA): “The Space Frequency Coordination Group (SFCG) structure and objectives”PDF (41.1kB) - PPT(118kB)

 

10.20 - Titus Spoelstra (CRAF): “European Concert:  consonants and dissonants” - PDF (84.5kB) - PPT(104kB)

 

 10.45-11.15  COFFEE BREAK

 

4.  The way ahead

         

11.15 - Jim Cohen (JBO): “Forthcoming WRC-07 and WRC-10 Agenda Items of interest for radio astronomy” - PDF (443kB) - PPT(3.55MB)

 

11.45 - Manfred Otter (ESA): “WRC-07 agenda items of interst to passive services with particular emphasis on 1.2 and 1.17” - PDF (180kB) - PPT(248kB) 

   

12.15 - Bjorn Rommen (ESA): “WRC-07 Agenda Item 1.20 and protection of the EESS (passive)” - PDF (78.3kB) - PPT(1.26MB)

 

13.00-14.30  LUNCH

 

14.00-17.45  Chair:  Edoardo Marelli

 

5.  Panel Discussion

 

Suggested topics include:

 

·        Possible new organizational links and collaborations

 

·        Do we need an ITU-R definition of passive service?

 

·        Forthcoming WRC-07 and WRC-10 agenda items, and how to prepare common positions for them (e.g. FSS at 1.4 GHz, protection of the submm bands 275-1000 GHz)

 

·        Outreach:  how to make the best case for the passive bands and how to raise awareness of the issues so that everyone knows what is at stake 

 

·        Policy statement or press release to be issued by workshop?

 

                16.00-16.30  COFFEE BREAK

 

16.30   Panel Discussion continued

 

17.30  Workshop Summary

 

END OF WORKSHOP