Outline of radio science

URSI

• Commission A - Electromagnetic Metrology
• * Antennas
• * Atomic-based mechatronics
• * Bioeffects and medical applications
• * EMC and EM metrology
• * High-frequency and millimeter wireless metrology
• * Impulse radar
• * Interconnect and packaging
• * Materials
• * Measurements and calibration in propagation
• * Microwave to submillimeter measurements/standards
• * Noise
• * Quantum metrology and fundamental concepts
• * Space plasma characterization
• * Techniques for remote sensing
• * Test facilities
• * THz metrology
• * Time and frequency
• * Time-domain metrology
• Commission B - Fields and Waves
• * Antenna arrays
• * Antennas: recent advances and future outlook
• * Antenna theory
• * design and measurements
• * Cognitive radio
• * Complex media
• **bandgap structures
• ** biological
• ** geophysical media
• ** metamaterials
• ** and others
• * Educational methods and tools
• * Electromagnetic interaction and coupling
• * Guided waves and waveguiding structures
• * High-frequency techniques
• * Imaging
• * inverse scattering and remote sensing
• * Mathematical modeling of electromagnetic problems
• * Microstrip antennas and printed devices
• * Multiphysics electromagnetics
• * Nanoscale electromagnetics
• * Nonlinear electromagnetics
• * Numerical methods
• **differential-and integral-equation based
• ** hybrid and other techniques
• * Optical phenomena
• * Optimization techniques in electromagnetics
• * Propagation phenomena and effects
• * Rough surfaces and random media
• * Scattering and diffraction
• * Theoretical electromagnetics
• * THz antennas and propagation
• * Transient fields effects and systems
• * Ultra-wideband electromagnetics
• * Wireless communications
• Commission C - Radiocommunication Systems and Signal Processing
• * Cognitive radio and software-defined radio
• * Distributed sensor networks and sensors array processing
• * Energy-efficient communications
• * Information theory, coding, modulation and detection
• * MIMO and MISO systems
• * Novel radio communication systems
• * Physics-based signal processing
• * Radar target detection, localization, and tracking
• * Radio localization and positioning
• * Signal and image processing
• * Spectrum and medium utilization
• * Statistical signal processing of waves in random media
• * Synthetic aperture and space-time processing
• * Wireless networking
• Commission D - Electronics and Photonics
• * Broadband ubiquitous network
• * Energy harvesting in wireless systems
• * Fiber lasers and solid state lasers
• * Graphene nanoelectronics applications
• * Multi-physics modeling in radio frequency nanoelectronics
• * Optical sensors and biosensors
• * Plasmonics
• * RF MEMS and NEMS
• * Signal processing antennas
• * 60 GHz electronics
• * Trends in RFID for identification and sensing
• * Trends in THz communications
• Commission E - Electromagnetic Environment and Interference
• * Communication in the presence of noise
• * Crosstalk
• * Electromagnetic compatibility education
• * Electromagnetic compatibility measurements and standards
• * Electromagnetic noise of natural origin
• * Electromagnetic radiation hazards
• * High-power effects of transients on electronic systems
• * Spectrum management and utilization
• Commission F - Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing
• * Propagation measurements/models for fixed and mobile links
• * Measurements of fixed and mobile channels
• * Propagation models
• * Multipath mitigation
• * Fixed terrestrial links: measurements and design strategies
• * Surface/atmosphere interaction
• * Dispersion/delay
• * Effects of natural/man-made structures
• * Outdoor to indoor propagation
• * Multi link MIMO channels
• * UWB channel characteristics,Small cell propagation
• * Remote sensing of the Earth/planets by radio waves
• * Passive sensing at millimeter wavelengths
• * Interferometry and SAR
• * Sensing of snow in open and forested environments
• * Remote sensing of precipitation
• * Atmospheric sensing
• * Sensing of soil moisture and biomass
• * Ocean and ice sensing
• * Urban environments
• * Radio Frequency Interference
• * Underground imaging
• * Propagation and remote sensing in complex and random media
• Commission G - Ionospheric Radio and Propagation
• * Ionospheric imaging
• * Ionospheric morphology
• * Ionospheric modeling and data assimilation
• * Radar and radio techniques for ionospheric diagnostics
• * Space weather - radio effects
• * Transionospheric radio propagation and systems effects
• Commission H - Waves in Plasma
• * Chaos and turbulence in plasma
• * Plasma instabilities and wave propagation
• * Spacecraft-plasma interactions
• * Solar/planetary plasma interactions
• * Wave-wave and wave-particle interactions
• * Waves in laboratory plasmas
• Commission J - Radio Astronomy
• * Detection of short-duration transients
• * Developments in array technology for radio astronomy
• * New telescopes, techniques, and observations
• * Radio frequency interference mitigation and spectrum usage
• * Square Kilometre Array
• * Timely technical tutorials
• Commission K - Electromagnetics in Biology and Medicine
• * Biological effects
• * Dosimetry and exposure assessment
• * Electromagnetic imaging and sensing applications
• * Human body interactions with antennas and other electromagnetic devices
• * Therapeutic, rehabilitative, and other biomedical applications

  ITU-R

• Study Group 1 - Spectrum management
• * 1A: Spectrum engineering techniques
• * 1B: Spectrum management methodologies and economic strategies
• * 1C: Spectrum monitoring
• Study Group 3 - Radiowave propagation
• * 3J: Propagation fundamentals
• * 3K: Point-to-area propagation
• * 3L: Ionospheric propagation and radio noise
• * 3M: Point-to-point and Earth-space propagation
• Study Group 4 - Satellite services
• * 4A: Efficient orbit/spectrum utilization for the fixed-satellite service and broadcasting-satellite service
• * 4B: Systems, air interfaces, performance and availability objectives for the fixed-satellite service, broadcasting-satellite service and mobile-satellite service, including IP-based applications and satellite news gathering
• * 4C: Efficient orbit/spectrum utilization for the mobile-satellite service and the radiodetermination-satellite service
• Study Group 5 - Terrestrial services
• * 5A: Land mobile service above 30 MHz ; wireless access in the fixed service; amateur and amateur-satellite services
• * 5B: Maritime mobile service including the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System ; the aeronautical mobile service and the radiodetermination service
• * 5C: Fixed wireless systems; HF and other systems below 30 MHz in the fixed and land mobile services
• * 5D: IMT systems
• Study Group 6 - Broadcasting service
• * 6A: Terrestrial broadcasting delivery
• * 6B: Broadcast service assembly and access
• * 6C: Programme production and quality assessment
• Study Group 7 - Science services
• * 7A: Time signals and frequency standard emissions: Systems and applications for dissemination of standard time and frequency signals
• * 7B: Space radiocommunication applications: Systems for transmission/reception of telecommanded and tele-metry data
• * 7C: Remote sensing systems: for space operation and for space research
• * 7D: Radio astronomy: remote sensing systems and applications for Earth exploration meteorology and planetary sensing.