June 1, 2007
Activity Report of URSI-F
Reported by Y. Yamaguchi (Chair)
1. Commission meetings in the period of Mar. 2006 – June 2007
(For more detail, please see http://www2.nict.go.jp/pub/ursi-f/)
(1) No.514 meeting
Date: April 27, 2007
Place: Kanto Gakuin University
Two technical papers were presented:
1. High precision and high resolution global precipitation map from satellite data
2. Safety driving system for pedestrian using RFID
(2) No.515 meeting
Date: May 17-18, 2007
Place: Kochi Green Hotel
This meeting was held under the co-sponsorship of the IEICE professional groups on AP. Four papers relevant to the field of URSI-F were presented:
1. Evaluation of the near-field UWB transmission characteristics Using the MR-FDTD Method applied to the parallel computing
2. An experimental study for a fast and high-resolution 3-D imaging algorithm with linear array antennas for UWB pulse radars
3. Classification of terrain using the correlation coefficient in the circular polarization basis for the X-band Pi-SAR image
4. The system for detection and visualization of a radio source
For more details, please see:
2. Commission meeting to be scheduled http://www2.nict.go.jp/pub/ursi-f/#meeting
3. Related International Conferences
2007 IEEE AP-S International Symposium (Honolulu, HI, USA, 10-15 June, 2007)
IGARSS'07 (Barcelona, Spain, 23-27 June, 2007)
2007 USNC/CNC/URSI North American Radio Science Meeting (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 7-12 July 2007)
The 66th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'07-Fall) (Baltimore, USA, October 1-3, 2007)
2007 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC 2007) (Bangkok, Thailand, December, 2007)
APSAR 2006: Technical co-sponsorship with International URSI-F, and URSI-F Japan