ESTIMATING CELLPHONE SIGNAL INTENSITY & IDENTIFYING RADIATION HOTSPOT AREA FOR TIRUNELVELI TALUK USING RS AND GIS

Sangeetha M, B. M. Purushothaman, S. Suresh Babu

Abstract: The increased uses of mobile phones have raised public interest in possible health issues associated with exposure to electromagnetic energy. For the speedy transmission and avoiding the construction of more towers, the single tower can be shared by multiple network operators. The simultaneous exposure to multiple frequency fields, the sum of all the radiation must be taken into consideration so the radiation intensity level exceeds by several times than the prescribed guideline. Hence, the public is being exposed to continuous, low intensity radiations from these towers. Present Survey has been designed to identify signal strength among the people dwelling near the base station. Signal Strength predicted by integration of NDVI methodology is taken into account for factors like trees, trunks, leaves, branches, their density and their heights relative to the antenna heights and also it has been calculated by both theoretical and practical. In this regard the present study, practical field investigations of existing towers have been done by using SCEPTOR (Mobile GIS/GPS receiver). These GPS data fed to GIS for creating a new layer along with DEM file and satellite image for creating virtual model.3D city model has been performed for the study area. Finally the radiation hotspot area has been identified by using viewshed analysis.

Keywords: RF Coverage, Signal Strength, GIS, Remote Sensing, GPS, and Antenna

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0302073