Views of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
on Agenda Items of Interest to the Science Services at the
WORLD
RADIOCOMMUNICATION
CONFERENCE 2019
Committee on the Views on the
World Radiocommunication Conference 2019
Board on Physics and Astronomy
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
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COMMITTEE ON THE VIEWS ON THE WORLD RADIOCOMMUNICATION CONFERENCE 2019
JASMEET JUDGE, University of Florida, Chair
LIESE VAN ZEE, Indiana University, Vice Chair
WILLIAM BLACKWELL, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
SANDRA L. CRUZ-POL, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
MICHAEL DAVIS, Ithaca, NY
DARREL EMERSON, Tucson, AZ
TODD GAIER, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NAMIR KASSIM, Naval Research Laboratory
DAVID LE VINE, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
AMY LOVELL, Agnes Scott College
JAMES MORAN, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
SCOTT RANSOM, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
PAUL SIQUEIRA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Staff
DAVID B. LANG, Study Director
JAMES C. LANCASTER, Director, Board on Physics and Astronomy
NEERAJ GORKHALY, Research Associate
LINDA WALKER, Program Coordinator
BETH DOLAN, Financial Associate
BOARD ON PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
BARBARA V. JACAK, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Chair
ABRAHAM LOEB, Harvard University, Vice Chair
FRANCIS J. DISALVO, Cornell University
TODD DITMIRE, University of Texas, Austin
NATHANIEL J. FISCH, Princeton University
DANIEL FISHER, Stanford University
WENDY FREEDMAN, University of Chicago
GERALD GABRIELSE, Harvard University
JACQUELINE N. HEWITT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
WENDELL T. HILL III, University of Maryland
ALAN J. HURD, Los Alamos National Laboratory
BARBARA JONES, IBM Almaden Research Center
HERBERT LEVINE, Rice University
LYMAN A. PAGE, JR., Princeton University
STEVEN M. RITZ, University of California, Santa Cruz
Staff
JAMES C. LANCASTER, Director
DAVID B. LANG, Senior Program Officer
ANDREA PETERSON, Program Officer
NEERAJ GORKHALY, Associate Program Officer
LINDA WALKER, Program Coordinator
HENRY KO, Research Associate
BETH DOLAN, Financial Associate
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We thank the following individuals for their review of this report:
David DeBoer, University of California, Berkeley,
Tomas Gergely, Washington, DC,
Jeffrey S. Herd, MIT Lincoln Laboratory,
Kenneth Kellermann, National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
Melinda Piket-May, University of Colorado, Boulder,
Paolo de Matthaeis, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
Thomas Meissner, Remote Sensing Systems, Inc., and
Paul G. Steffes, Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Contents
Agenda Item 1.2: Power Limits for Earth Stations
Agenda Item 1.5: Earth Stations in Motion (ESIM)
Agenda Item 1.6: Non-GSO FSS Satellite Systems at 37-50 GHz
Agenda Item 1.7: Spectrum Needs for Non-GSO Satellites
Agenda Item 1.8: Global Maritime Distress Safety Systems
Agenda Item 1.9.1: Autonomous Maritime Radio Devices
Agenda Item 1.9.2: Maritime Mobile-Satellite Allocations
Agenda Item 1.13: Future Development of International Mobile Telecommunications
Agenda Item 1.14: High-Altitude Platform Stations