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== EM.Tempo Features at a Glance ==
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=== Scene Definition / Construction ===
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Buildings/blocks with arbitrary geometries and material properties including multilayer walls and user defined macromodels</li>
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Buildings/blocks with impenetrable or penetrable surfaces</li>
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Terrain with arbitrary material properties including lossy multilayer ground, user defined macromodels or an empirical soil model</li>
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Native terrain generator with terrain catalog and user defined equation-based surface profiles including random rough surface terrain</li>
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Import of shape files for scene construction</li>
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Import of digital elevation map (DEM) terrain</li>
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Penetrable volume blocks with arbitrary material properties or based on fog, rain or Weissberger vegetation models</li>
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Easy construction of indoor scenes using arbitrary penetrable surfaces with thin wall definitions</li>
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Radiator sets with 3D directional antenna patterns (imported from other modules or external files)</li>
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Full three-axis rotation of imported antenna patterns</li>
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Interchangeable radiator-based definition of transmitters and receivers (networks of transceivers)</li>
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Multiple transmitters and transmitter arrays with coherent ray superposition</li>
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Multiple receivers and receiver grids for coverage modeling</li>
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=== Wave Propagation Modeling ===
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Fully 3D polarimetric and coherent Shoot-and-Bounce-Rays (SBR) simulation engine</li>
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GTD/UTD diffraction models for diffraction from building edges and terrain</li>
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Triangular surface mesher for discretization of arbitrary block geometries</li>
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Super-fast geometrical/optical ray tracing using advanced k-d tree algorithms</li>
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Intelligent ray tracing with user defined angular extents and resolution</li>
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Ray reflection, edge diffraction and transmission through multilayer thin walls and material volumes</li>
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Communication link analysis for superheterodyne transmitters and receivers</li>
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User defined macromodels for reflection and transmission coefficients of blocks and terrain (imported from other modules or external files)</li>
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Real-time superposition of synchronized transmitters</li>
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Incredibly fast frequency sweeps of the entire propagation scene</li>
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Parametric sweeps of scene elements like building properties, radiator heights and rotation angles, or superheterodyne transmitter and receiver parameters</li>
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Statistical analsyis of the propagation scene</li>
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Remote simulation capability</li>
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Both Windows and Linux versions of SBR simulation engine available</li>
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=== Data Generation & Visualization ===
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Graphical visualization of propagating rays in the scene</li>
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Received power coverage maps</li>
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Color-coded intensity plots of polarimetric electric field distributions</li>
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Link connectivity maps (based on minimum required SNR)</li>
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Incoming ray data analysis at each receiver</li>
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Cartesian plots of path loss along defined paths</li>
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Power delay profile</li>
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== A Ray Tracing Simulation Primer ==