Signal Coverage of Low-land Areas Using Geographic Information Systems

Abstract

Telecommunications today is one of the most important means of sharing information and data, to get out of the small space to the great world, so that the world has become a small village through the signals provided by telecommunication companies. So it has to be of continous interest in providing communication services to facilitate the lives of people, and moreover, work on expansions to ensure the availability on a wider scale. In this research, we discussthe lack of signals and weaknesses in the Kassingar area of the Northern State as a solution to provide service for lowland areas. It should be mentioned here, that the area of scope is covered by just two telecommunication towers, after the exclusion of the far towers and another one located at the other side of the riverNile because the signal after impinged the surface of water is reflecation. The main objective of this research is to study and analyze the nature of (height – low levels) to the test area and to investigate the impact of highs and lows, that mighteventually disrupt signals, and the distribution of towers in terms of coverage using GIS techniques. The results hadshown in a clear and direct way the strong relationship between the height of the tower positions and the lower area under study indicating some weak signal strength, or sometimes absences. We found out, that by adding a new tower at the coordinates [31° 54' 45.0828"E-18° 35' 48.7422"N], it can be made sure to provide signals in the first and second level for all regions. This research experiment is considered as a basis and support for telecommunication companies to enable further studies of regions of uncovered or weakly- covered communication signals, and to support decision-making to put the towers in the right place ensuring the Quality of Service (QoS) for each part, no matter ofthe surrounding environmental nature.