Radio Research
The Radio Research Group includes research activities in radio communications, radio systems and radio wave propagation modelling. It provides expert advice to government regulators and to industry on all matters related to the use of the entire radio spectrum, from HF to optical, in terrestrial and Earth-space applications. In particular the Group promotes the commercial use of higher frequency bands and provides propagation models appropriate for planning innovative new services. This modelling work is closely coupled to studies and measurements of the troposphere and the ionosphere.
Recent emphasis has been in assisting the UK regulator Ofcom (link opens in a new window) in improving the efficiency with which spectrum is used in order to provide enough space for new applications. A significant proportion of the Group's work has been incorporated through international peer review into the ITU-R Study Group 3 series of recommendations on propagation prediction, which are extensively used in national planning and in international co-ordination of radio communications systems. An increasing amount of work is funded by other organisations such as NERC, EPSRC, the Met Office, ITC, ESA, QinetiQ and the EU.
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