Hi Todd:
I have been associated with GIS and wireless Telecom for quite a while here.
I am not aware of any RF planning packages that use either arcview or
Arcinfo. decibelPlanner used mapinfo's engine. So does Agilent's Wizard.
Most of the RF planning tools have their own proprierty GIS rendering
engine.
Moreover, If my understanding is correct, most of the RD planning tool ( I
am primarily aware of cellular - GSM or CDMA) provide the signal strength at
any point on the ground. I do not think they can give signal values at at
height 5K above MSL.
One of the options could be create a middleware to automatically connect
your DOS program and arcinfo/arcview ( provided your DOS program can take
all input parameters on the command line). This middleware will act as
wrapper to your DOS program and control the input and display/store the
output back into arcview/arcinfo.
I hope this helps. bye.
Rajeev Saraf, Ph.D.
Co-Founder
Manchitra Services (P) Ltd.
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INDIA
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----- Original Message -----
From: "McNeil, Todd W. (TMCNEIL)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 8:24 PM
Subject: MI-L RF Analysis Questions..
> I have recently purchased some AI 8.0.2 products and ArcIMS and also have
> MapInfo and ArcView. A co-worker and myself are very interested in finding
> information about RF Analysis programs. We do a lot of mapping of VHF
> coverages for many airline customers who are interested in what we have at
> various altitudes, say between 5 K and 30 K Feet at Mean Sea Level. There
> are times when we don't have the data and have to process new stations and
> the only way to do it is by having my coworker use TAP (Terrain Analysis
> Program), which runs in DOS, to create text files of real RF coverage.
This
> program runs a series of batch files created by scratch and based on the
> topography, creates a comma-delimited text file that contains 361 lines of
> values. The first line shows the header or field information and the rest
> gives the x,y coordinate of where the edge of the coverage goes. So, the
> program looks at 360 radial points all around the station antenna. The
> elevation data the program uses in its algorithms is proprietary and am
not
> sure how accurate it is. I probably don't have much faith in it since I
> can't look at it. The program takes into account the height and kind of
> antenna, altitude (at Mean Sea level), location and various other
parameters
> associated with RF. TAP can run batch files of many locations at once,
its
> kind of slow, but it works.
>
> We are looking for more efficient solutions including other types of
> software that can run in ArcInfo 8.1 or ArcView 8.1 that can produce
polygon
> or polyline data that represents RF coverage of an individual station at a
> specific height in MSL. This program should also be able to run batch
> processes. I have heard about Decibel Planner, a MapInfo Tool, but I
would
> assume that the functionality is possible in ArcView or ArcInfo.
>
> If anyone has any ideas and can provide me with a contact list of
companies
> or people that use ArcView and/or ArcInfo for RF analysis projects, I
would
> greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks and Will Sum,
>
>
> Todd McNeil
> GIS Specialist
> Aeronautical Radio, Inc.
> Annapolis, MD
> Phone: 410-266-2302
> Fax: 410-266-4010
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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