WARS 2008 Proceedings (Program and links to Papers)

Here are the Proceedings for WARS 2008: firstly the full program including keynote speakers, then the Poster Sessions in detail. Click on links to see abstracts, papers, or presentations. Citation information is as follows:

• Title: WARS 2008 Conference, Workshop on Applications of Radio Science
• Conference convenor (chair): Geoffrey James, CSIRO Australia
• Conference editor (technical chair): Ray Norris, CSIRO Australia
• ISBN: 978 0 643 09656 1
• Location and dates: Gold Coast, Australia, 10-12 February 2008
• Review: full papers were subjected to a peer review process by the Program Committee.

  	Sunday 10^th February
  18:30	Dinner
  20:30	NCRS meeting

  	Monday 11^th February
  9:00	Keynote Talk 1: Alex Grant, University of South Australia: Cognitive Radio
  9:45	Keynote Talk 2:Frank Briggs, ANU: The Mileura Widefield Array
  10:30	Morning tea
  10:45	Poster introductions
  11:00	Poster session 1
  12:30	Lunch
  13:30	Keynote Talk 3: David de Boer Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP)
  14:00	Special Talks: Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) Phased Array Feeds for ASKAP – Doug Hayman The ASKAP Antenna Concept – Ross Forsyth The ASKAP Digital Concept – John Bunton
  15:00	Afternoon tea
  15:15	Poster introductions
  15:30	Poster session 2
  17:00	Free time
  18:00	Drinks
  18:30	Dinner
  	Entertainment: Ray Norris Aboriginal Astronomy

  	Tuesday 12th February
  9:00	Keynote Talk 4: Peter Corke, CSIRO: Wireless sensor networks
  9:45	Keynote Talk 5: Roman Makarevitch, La Trobe Uni: HF radar studies of ionospheric irregularities and plasma convection
  10:30	Morning tea
  10:45	Poster introductions
  11:00	Poster session 3
  12:30	BBQ lunch
  14:00	Industry panel session Speakers include: Jim Harvey (Mimix), Peter Martin (RFShop), John Ness (EM Solutions), Richard Taylor (Microwave & Materials Designs),
  15:00	Conference close

  Poster Sessions

  Poster Session 1:

  Christophe Granet and Trevor Bird	Dual-polarized high-efficiency spline-profile square horns for satellite array applications
  Anthony Parker and James Rathmell	Comprehensive model of microwave FET electro-thermal and trapping dynamics
  Yuehe Ge and Karu Esselle	A class of high-gain low-profile resonant cavity antennas based on a single layer metamaterial superstrate
  Peter Vun, Simon Mahon and Anthony Parker	Modelling strategy for accurate HEMT circuit design
  Venkata Gutta et al.	Millimeterwave mixers for high capacity digital radio links
  Stephen Hanham, Trevor Bird, Benjamin Johnston and Robert Minasian	Dielectric rods for terahertz antenna arrays
  Keith Kikkert and Owen Kenny	The design of a Ka band satellite beacon receiver
  Robert Gardiner-Garden, et al.	A new hi-fidelity oblique HF receiving system
  Andrew Heitmann & Robert Gardiner-Garden	Feature extraction and mode identification in oblique incidence soundings
  David Netherway and Robert Gardiner-Garden	On interpretation of BSS leading edges
  J.M. Le Floch et al.	Room temperature filters and oscillators with Bragg effect dielectric resonators
  Carol Wilson and Hajime Suzuki	Anomalies in the application of the multiple knife-edge diffraction model
  Elena Vinogradova	Wave scattering by 2-D arbitrary cavities: rigorous analysis

  Poster Session 2:

  David Barnes and Grenville Armitage	Realtime monitoring for the next generation of radiotelescopes
  John Bunton et al.	ASKAP beamformer development
  Douglas Hayman et al.	The NTD interferometer: a phased array feed test bed
  John Bennett	Quasi-optics using tensor components of vectors
  Christophe Granet, Ian Davis and Trevor Bird	A compact, prime-focus, dual-band coaxial horn for the giant meter-wave radio telescope (GMRT, India)
  Christophe Granet, John Kot, Stuart Hay and John O’Sullivan	A study of optimized dual-reflector systems with phased array feeds for “ASKAP”
  Graham Moorey et al.	Cryogenically cooled 30 – 50 GHz receiver systems for the Australia Telescope
  Paul Smith et al.	A regularised approach to diffraction from arbitrarily shaped screens of revolution
  Paul Roberts	Ionospheric dispersion compensation using a novel microwave de-dispersion filter
  John Hartnett et al.	Application of ultra-high stability cryogenic sapphire oscillators to Very Long Baseline Interferometry
  Diana Londish et al	The Australian SKA Pathfinder Instrument (ASKAP)

  Poster Session 3:

  Bridget Lally and Haley Jones	Protection of fortuitous reception C-band television receive-only earth stations from wireless access service signals
  Richard Hawkes	Radiolocation using differential Doppler
  Greg Hislop, Li Li and Andrew Hellicar	Microwave tomographic imaging of logs
  Ghaffer Kiani et al.	Transmission improvement of useful signals through energy saving glass windows using frequency selective surfaces
  Andrew Kerans and Bridget Lally	Evolution of spectrum management to enable the entry of cognitive radio
  Graham Woods	Wireless sensor networks on the great barrier reef
  Joel Younger, Iain Reid and Robert Vincent	On observations of meteor trail diffusion using VHF radar
  Andrew Hellicar, Li Li and Juan Tello	First measurements of a multi-spectral imaging demonstrator
  Robert Gardiner-Garden	Comparing synthesised & observed oblique ionograms
  Andrew Heitmann & Robert Gardiner-Garden	The behaviour and modelling of sporadic-E heights in the JORN surveillance region
  Pasha Ponomarenko, Colin Waters and Fred Menk	Propagation mode separation in SuperDARN data
  Michael K. Maggs, Steven G. O’Keefe and David V. Thiel	Decentralised clock synchronisation in large scale wireless sensor networks using neighbourhood statistics
  B. A. Carter and R. A. Makarevich	HF radar echoes from the E region: Occurrence and generation mechanisms
  A. C. Kellerman and R. A. Makarevich	Electric field and conductance control of electrojet currents in the auroral region
  Carol Wilson	Frequency bands for Wireless Sensor Networks