Your browser does not support JavaScript!
http://iet.metastore.ingenta.com
1887

Vegetal barriers for minimising electromagnetic pollution at cellular phone bands

Vegetal barriers for minimising electromagnetic pollution at cellular phone bands

For access to this article, please select a purchase option:

Buy article PDF
£12.50
(plus tax if applicable)
Add to cart
Buy Knowledge Pack
10 articles for £75.00
(plus taxes if applicable)
Add to cart

IET members benefit from discounts to all IET publications and free access to E&T Magazine. If you are an IET member, log in to your account and the discounts will automatically be applied.

Learn more about IET membership 

Recommend Title Publication to library

You must fill out fields marked with: *

Librarian details
Name:*
Email:*
Your details
Name:*
Email:*
Department:*
Why are you recommending this title?
Select reason:
 
 
 
 
 
Electronics Letters — Recommend this title to your library

Thank you

Your recommendation has been sent to your librarian.

© IEE
Published

The use of rows of trees as barriers to minimise electromagnetic pollution in sensitive areas, such as hospitals, kindergartens or geriatric residences, is proposed and tested by means of measurements in actual scenarios. Attenuation induced by individual trees has been measured at GSM and UMTS bands over 18 samples from four different species. Results show diverse degrees of attenuation with certain dependence on the species, and even on the specimen. Then, a row of apple trees has been used to check its utility as a barrier for reducing the power levels in its shadow area, becoming an efficient and natural solution to minimise electromagnetic pollution.

Inspec keywords: UHF radio propagation; electromagnetic wave scattering; electromagnetic wave absorption; 3G mobile communication; cellular radio

Other keywords: electromagnetic pollution minimisation; cellular phone bands; individual trees; vegetal barriers; UMTS; GSM; 930 to 2100 MHz; apple trees

Subjects: Mobile radio systems; Radiowave propagation

References

    1. 1)
    2. 2)
      • Guidelines for limiting exposure to time-varying electric, magnetic and electromagnetic fields (up to 300 GHz). Health Phys. , 4 , 494 - 522
    3. 3)
      • Ministerio de la Presidencia, Real Decreto 1066/2001, de 28 de septiembre por el que se aprueba el reglamento que establece las condiciones de protección del dominio público radioeléctrico, restricciones a las emisiones radioeléctricas y medidas de protección sanitaria frente a emisiones radioeléctricas, Boletín Oficial del Estado (www.boe.es), No.234, 36217-36227, September 29, 2001 (in Spanish).
    4. 4)
      • Council Recommendation of July 12, 1999 on the limitation of exposure to the general public to electromagnetic fields (0 Hz to 300 GHz), 1999/519/EC, Official Journal of the European Communities, L199/59-70, 30-07-1999..
    5. 5)
      • Caldeirinha, R.F.S., Al-Nuaimi, M.O.: `Propagation modelling of bistatic scattering of isolated trees for micro- and millimeter wave urban microcells', PIMRC, 2002, p. 135–139.
http://iet.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journals/10.1049/el_20058001
Loading

Related content

content/journals/10.1049/el_20058001
pub_keyword,iet_inspecKeyword,pub_concept
6
6
Loading
Print this page
This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address