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Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS) · Data & Digital Tools

5G Aerial RF Radiation Data: measured airborne radiation patterns around 5G MIMO gNodeB base station transmitters, published by ITS on GitHub.

Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS) · Data & Digital Tools

Compound Radar Waveforms Data used by NTIA/ITS report TR-23-566 on the effects of resolution bandwidth when measuring compound radar waveforms, published on GitHub.

Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS) · Capabilities & Access

Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, the research and engineering laboratory of NTIA in the U.S. Department of Commerce, running NTIA's telecommunications research programs and the Table Mountain Field Site and Radio Quiet Zone, with…

Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS) · Capabilities & Access

ITS agreements for outside work: Interagency Agreements (IAAs) for other federal agencies' telecommunications and spectrum research needs and Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) with industry and academia.

Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS) · Physical Infrastructure

Large Turntable at Table Mountain: a 10.4 m (34 ft) rotatable steel table mounted flush with the ground, with laboratory space underneath for test instrumentation and the control equipment and motors.

Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS) · Data & Digital Tools

U.S. implementation of the Irregular Lunar Model (ILM), shared as an active workspace for the 2024 ITU-R Study Group 3 discussions; its releases have not undergone ITS standard quality review.

Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS) · Data & Digital Tools

ITS Irregular Terrain Model (ITM), predicting terrestrial radiowave propagation from 20 MHz to 20 GHz from electromagnetic theory and the Longley-Rice empirical models; a C++ code base functionally identical to FORTRAN version 1.2.2, with…

Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS) · Data & Digital Tools

U.S. reference implementation of Recommendation ITU-R P.528 for propagation path loss predictions for aeronautical mobile and radionavigation services in the VHF, UHF and SHF bands, buildable as a C++ library with a C#/.NET wrapper.

Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS) · Physical Infrastructure

Open Field Radio Test Site at Table Mountain for measuring far-field antenna radiation patterns and the effect of mounting antennas on structures such as buildings or vehicles, inside the Radio Quiet Zone.

Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS) · Physical Infrastructure

Radar Test Range at Table Mountain providing power and internet for hosting radar systems for radiated emissions measurements.

Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS) · Capabilities & Access

ITS Radio Spectrum Measurement Sciences (RSMS) program performing time-sensitive RF measurements for NTIA and other federal agencies: spectrum and channel usage surveys and monitoring, equipment characterization and compliance,…

Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS) · Capabilities & Access

Site access to Table Mountain: badged DoC and USGS employees and authorized affiliates and contractors who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents with a current federal background clearance may apply for unaccompanied access; others must…

Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS) · Physical Infrastructure

Table Mountain Field Site and Radio Quiet Zone, about 680 hectares (1,700 acres) of flat mesa 15 km north of the Department of Commerce campus in Boulder, one of only two federally mandated radio quiet zones in the U.S., used since 1954…