Views of the U.S. NAS and NAE on Agenda Items at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 (2013)
Chapter: Front Matter
Views of the U.S. NAS and NAE on Agenda Items at the
WORLD RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS
CONFERENCE 2015
Committee on the Views of the U.S. NAS and NAE on Agenda
Items at Issue at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2015
Board on Physics and Astronomy
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
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COMMITTEE ON THE VIEWS OF THE U.S. NAS AND NAE ON AGENDA ITEMS AT ISSUE AT THE WORLD RADIOCOMMUNICATION CONFERENCE 2015
DAVID DeBOER, University of California, Berkeley, Chair
JASMEET JUDGE, University of Florida, Vice Chair
WILLIAM BLACKWELL, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
SANDRA L. CRUZ-POL, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
MICHAEL DAVIS, SETI Institute, retired
TODD GAIER, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
KENNETH KELLERMANN, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
DAVID Le VINE, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
LORIS MAGNANI, University of Georgia
DARREN McKAGUE, University of Michigan
TIMOTHY PEARSON, California Institute of Technology
ALAN E.E. ROGERS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Haystack Observatory
GREGORY TAYLOR, University of New Mexico
A. RICHARD THOMPSON, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
LIESE VAN ZEE, Indiana University
Staff
DAVID B. LANG, Program Officer, Study Director
JAMES C. LANCASTER, Director, Board on Physics and Astronomy
CARYN JOY KNUTSEN, Associate Program Officer
TERI THOROWGOOD, Administrative Coordinator
BETH DOLAN, Financial Associate
BOARD ON PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
PHILIP H. BUCKSBAUM, Stanford University, Chair
DEBRA M. ELMEGREEN, Vassar College, Vice Chair
RICCARDO BETTI, University of Rochester
ADAM S. BURROWS, Princeton University
TODD DITMIRE, University of Texas
NATHANIEL J. FISCH, Princeton University
PAUL FLEURY, Yale University
S. JAMES GATES, University of Maryland
LAURA H. GREENE, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
MARTHA P. HAYNES, Cornell University
MARK B. KETCHEN, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
MONICA OLVERA DE LA CRUZ, Northwestern University
PAUL SCHECHTER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BORIS SHRAIMAN, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics
MICHAEL S. TURNER, University of Chicago
ELLEN D. WILLIAMS, BP International
MICHAEL WITHERELL, University of California, Santa Barbara
Staff
JAMES C. LANCASTER, Director
DONALD C. SHAPERO, Senior Scholar
DAVID B. LANG, Program Officer
LINDA WALKER, Program Coordinator
BETH DOLAN, Financial Associate
Acknowledgment of Reviewers
This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the Report Review Committee of the National Research Council (NRC). The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. The committee wishes to thank the following individuals for their review of this report:
Paul Feldman, Esq., Fletcher, Heald and Hildreth,
William Howard, Universities Space Research Association (retired),
David Long, Brigham Young University,
Thomas Meissner, Remote Sensing Systems, Inc.,
James Moran, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
John Osepchuk, Full Spectrum Consulting,
Robert Scholtz, University of Southern California,
Charles Wende, NASA (retired), and
David Woody, Owens Valley Radio Observatory and California Institute of Technology.
Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations, nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Frank Drake (NAS), SETI Institute. Appointed by the NRC, he was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution.
Contents
Earth Exploration-Satellite Service
2 VIEWS ON WRC-15 AGENDA ITEMS
Agenda Item 1.1: Terrestrial Mobile Broadband Applications
Agenda Item 1.3: Broadband Public Protection and Disaster Relief
Agenda Item 1.6: Allocation of 250-300 MHz in the Range of 10 GHz to 17 GHz
Agenda Item 1.10: Mobile-Satellite Service in the Earth-to-Space and Space-to-Earth Directions
