A physical–statistical hybrid model for Land Mobile Satellite propagation channel at Ku/Ka band

This paper presents an optimized Land Mobile Satellite (LMS) propagation channel model for Ku/Ka band. Here, a physical–statistical hybrid approach is proposed in order to simplify as much as possible the synthetic environment and the electromagnetic model, while keeping a good representation of the satellite propagation channel. This approach is complementary of full statistical approach [1] as a specific environment can now be tackled instead of a mixture of different propagation conditions. An original validation of the model is presented here, with an innovative method based on 360° panoramic images analysis in order to rebuild a simple synthetic environment.