Paper Submission

To promote communications, the WARS Committee invites attendees to present a range of papers. WARS Conferences are based on three types of papers:

• A small number of Invited Reviews (usually 5 or 6), which we encourage to be submitted as full papers before WARS for publication in the Radio Science Bulletin.
• Research Papers that are presented as posters, accompanied by refereed papers in the WARS Conference Proceedings.
• Posters, accompanied by a short, descriptive abstract, or optionally an extended abstract.

WARS Research Papers

All WARS Research Papers are fully peer reviewed, to meet the DEST E1 classification for refereed papers published in conference proceedings. An acceptable peer review process is one that involves an independent, expert review. The peer review process involves assessment of the publication:

• in its entirety - not merely an abstract or extract;
• before publication; and
• by appropriately independent, qualified experts. Independent in this context means independent of the author and his/her institution.

The review process for the WARS 2008 Conference is managed by a panel of Editors, representing the 10 Commissions of URSI, and a list of the Referees appears in the Conference Proceedings. The Conference Proceedings is supplied to Conference attendees on CD-ROM and is also published on the world-wide-web on this Website.

Research Paper Formatting Information

Research Paper formatting will conform to the standards used at the last URSI General Assembly.  The description of this format is available here as a PDF downloadable file.  Research Papers may be up to 6 pages long.

WARS Posters

Posters are accompanied by an abstract in the WARS Conference Proceedings following the same formatting standards as Research Papers.  Although these contributions are not refereed, authors are nevertheless encouraged to provide an extended abstract for the Proceedings so that it can be as complete a summary of the Conference as possible.&nbsp Extended abstracts may be up to 3 pages long.

Poster and Abstract Formatting Information

Poster preparation is discussed here. Abstracts and extended abstracts associated with posters should follow the same formatting standards as WARS Research Papers except that they are limited to 3 pages in length.

Subjects material covered by WARS

WARS Conferences seek to cover all aspects of radio science in Australia.  This broad theme captures all the topics covered by URSI General Assemblies and described in the URSI Terms of Reference.  Here is a list of keywords that might appear in WARS presentations.  Many others could be added to this list and still not exhaust the possibilities, so if your topic is not represented then please ask, maybe it ought to be.

analysis of interference to medical equipment, Antennas, switched parasitic antennas, Antennas for Radio astronomy, ASIC design for 3G systems, Astronomy - 21cm hydrogen line - radio galaxies, Atmospheric and ionospheric influences on the radio wave propagation, Baseband algorithms for future generation wireless infrastructure, boundary layer, Centre for Networking Technologies for the Information Economy (CeNTIE), crystals, Deep radio observations of key astronomical fields (e.g. Hubble Deep field), Electromagnetic band, Electromagnetic Multipath Modelling, Electromagnetic Propagation Modelling, EM and thermal numerical modelling, EME standards, epidemiology, Equalisation, forecasting of radio conditions, gap structures, geodetical measurements using VLBI, geomagnetic storms, GPS Ionospheric Modelling, GPS Limb Sounding, identification for livestock, Image Reconstruction, indoor and urban area radio, industrial, interplanetary radio emissions, ionopsheric monitoring, ionosphere, masers, mesosphere, Microwave Engineering, MMIC design, MMICs, Mobile Communications, Multi-in/multi-out (MIMO) systems, Nano Science & Systems, numerical techniques, Optical Sciences & Photonics Technologies, outer heliospheric radio emissions, Pattern recognition, Photonic, planetary radio emissions, plasma instabilities, radiation mechanisms, Radio astronomy,radio systems, regulatory and OH&S, remote sensing, RF dosimetry development of EME software tools such as RF field strength prediction, RFICs, Signal processing, smart antennas, Smart Measurements, Smart Sensing, solar physics, solar radio bursts, Space & Satellite Communications Systems, space weather, space-based radio, observations, Square Kilometre Array, stratosphere, Surface Engineering Science, Synthesis Imaging, The phenomena of radio-loud galaxies & quasars, the scientific specifications for new large radio telescopes, troposphere, Turbo coding, wave-particle interactions,3G mobile telephony, Astronomical instrumentation and techniques,Atmospheric radar,Broadband Wireless Systems,coding and information theory,communications signal processing,Electromagnetic Engineering,electromagnetic geophysics and earth measurements,EM measurement,Information and Communication Technologies,ionospheric parameters,Manufacturing Technologies, Energy & Sustainability,Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex,National Measurement Laboratory,Navigation,plasma astrophysics,Possible health effects and mobile telephony,possible RF health effects,Radar,Radio Astronomy; RF systems; Digital signal Processing,Research in astronomy and astrophsics,RFID for tracking,Service Industry Technologies: e-Health,space plasma physics,telecommunications networks and services,Radio astrophysics, SRAMP, S-RAMP, ionosonde, ionosphere, antarctica, drift,polar patches, F3 layer, oblique propagation, Fedsat, magnetic field, magnetometer, ULF, waves, TEC, polar arcs, convection, GPS, Doppler, ULF, Alfven mode, pulsation, travelling ionospheric disturbances, TID, scintillation, tides, Fabry-Perot, MF radar, middle atmosphere, oblique ionogram, backscatter, sporadic E, crossphase analysis, magnetometer, cusp, pulsation, magnetosphere, Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, Fabry Perot, Interferometer, broadening, fluxgate, pulsation, Pc 3, Pc 4, magnetosphere, IMAGE