This practical resource is designed to help professionals overcome this problem. This timely book provides a solid understanding of the use of radio interferometers for tracking and monitoring satellites in overcrowded environments. Practitioners learn the fundamentals of radio interferometer hardware, including antennas, receiving equipment, signal processing and phase detection, and measurement accuracies.

This volume describes the nature of the targets to be tracked by the interferometer, helping to clarify the movement of target satellites and what specific information has to be caught by the interferometer.
Additionally, engineers find details on applications to practical cases of satellite tracking, covering different types of interferometers, recent technical developments, orbital monitoring and safety control.


Contents
Preface
Part I Radio Interferometer
1 Overview of Part I: Radio Interferometer
2 Receiving Antenna
3 Receiving Equipment
4 Phase Detection
5 Signal, Noise, and Precision
6 Error Factors
7 Design and Installation
Part II Geostationary Satellite Orbit
8 Overview of Part II: Geostationary Satellite Orbit
9 Kepler's Laws
10 Near-Stationary Orbit
11 Changing the Orbit
12 Orbital Perturbations
13 Station Keeping
14 Overcrowding and Regulations
Part III Interferometric Tracking
15 Overview of Part III: Interfero metric Tracking
16 Tracking and Orbit Estimation
17 Azimuth-Elevation Tracking
18 Longitude Tracking
19 Range-Azimuth Tracking
20 Differential Tracking
21 Rotary-Baseline Interferometer
22 Geo location Interferometer
About the Author
Index

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