WARS2006 (Workshop on the Applications of Radio Science)

In addition to being published on CDROM, the WARS2006 Proceedings is also published on the world-wide-web on the NCRS Website http://www.ips.gov.au/IPSHosted/NCRS/index.html in accordance with the DETYA Guidelines at the time of publication for papers to be classified in the E1 category. The Web version of the Proceedings is the definitive version and is archived.

WARS2006 is the sixth in a series of conferences of national significance organised by the National Committee for Radio Science (NCRS). It brings together Australian and International scientists and engineers conducting research in areas relevant to the various Commissions of URSI (International Union of Radio Science - for more information URSI Homepage with which Australia is affiliated through the work of the National Committee for Radio Science.

The papers submitted to WARS2006 provide an opportunity for Australian scientists and postgraduate students to present their work to their national peers and in particular, to provide an important opportunity for cross-fertilisation of ideas between the wide range of sub-disciplines that make up radio science in Australia and internationally.

Two classes of papers were invited for WARS2006:

• Research papers, refereed as indicated below, and
• Information papers, where refereeing was not carried out.

Each research paper submitted was reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Authors were required to respond to reviewer comments and papers undergoing major revision were sent to referees a second time. Reviewers were issued with guidelines and criteria for publication consistent with those issued by several international journals, premier in their field. For a paper to be accepted for publication, two referees had to be satisfied that it met these guidelines and criteria.

A list of reviewers for the Proceedings

The Editorial Panel that supervised these tasks were:

• Proceedings Editor - Phil Wilkinson
• Commission B Editor - John Kot
• Commission F Editor - David Noon
• Commission G Editor - Peter Dyson
• Commission H Editor - Brian Fraser
• Commission J Editor - Ray Norris

These research papers comprise the balance of the papers presented at WARS2006 and are found in the Proceedings listing under paper-R and have paper numbers commencing with R.

To give a more complete record of the WARS2006 Conference, authors of Information papers were invited to supply extended abstracts, referred to as I-paper, and an abstract. Information papers, with numbers commencing with I appear in the Proceedings if they are available.

WARS2006 Invited Speakers

Through the Invited Speakers program, Australian and overseas scientists of international standing review a number of new developments in international radio science in which Australia has an interest.