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Radio Science Bulletin Staff INTERNATIONAL UNION UNION OF RADIO-SCIENTIFIQUE RADIO SCIENCE INTERNATIONALE ISSN 1024-4530 Bulletin No 360 March 2017 Radio Science URSI, c/o Ghent University (INTEC) St.-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent (Belgium) Contents Radio Science Bulletin Staff ....................................................................................... 4 URSI Offi cers and Secretariat.................................................................................... 7 Editor’s Comments ..................................................................................................... 9 Special Section: The Best Papers from the EMTS 2016 Young Scientist Awards 11 Sub-Voxel Refi nement Method for Tissue Boundary Conductivities in Volume Conductor Models ................................................................................... 13 How Kerr Nonlinearity Infl uences Polarized Electromagnetic Wave Propagation ................................................................................................. 19 Sum-Frequency and Second-Harmonic Generation from Plasmonic Nonlinear Nanoantennas ...................................................................................... 43 Hornet Biological Radar for Detection, Tracking, Direction Finding, and Long Distance Communication: Is This Possible? ............................................. 50 Foreword to Radio Science for Humanity: URSI-France 2017 Workshop ......... 60 URSI France 2017 Workshop on Radio Science for Humanity ............................ 62 Journées scientifi ques URSI-France 2017 -Radiosciences au service de l’humanité .............................................................................................................. 62 François Lefeuvre: A Long Way Among Waves ..................................................... 69 Events Linked to the Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Observed by DEMETER ...................................................................................... 75 Fine-Scale Evaluation of Rainfall from TV-Sats: A New Method for Water Monitoring and Flash Flood Prevention ................................................ 80 Call for papers AT-RASC 2018 ................................................................................ 89 URSI Awards 2017 .................................................................................................... 90 In Memoriam: Richard L. Dowden ......................................................................... 92 Call for Papers FEM 2018 ........................................................................................ 94 Historical Column ..................................................................................................... 95 Claude Chappe and the First Telecommunication Network ................................ 96 Book Review ............................................................................................................ 102 Et Cetera .................................................................................................................. 105 Ethically Speaking .................................................................................................. 106 Solution Box ............................................................................................................. 108 Telecommunications Health and Safety ................................................................ 112 Women in Radio Science ........................................................................................ 115 Call for papers 2018 IEEE AP-S & USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting .........118 URSI Accounts 2016 ............................................................................................... 119 2 The Radio Science Bulletin No 360 (March 2017) Rapport CROWNCOM 2016 ...............................................................................123 Report on IEEE Radio and Antenna Days of the Indian Ocean ......................124 Report on ISAP2016 ..............................................................................................125 IUCAF 2016 Annual Report .................................................................................129 URSI Conference Calendar ..................................................................................132 Information for Authors .......................................................................................133 Become An Individual Member of URSI.............................................................134 Cover: (Upper fi gure) The steps used to create the volume conductor models used for the paper. The MRI data were fi rst segmented, and then the surfaces obtained were used to voxelize the segmented model. See the paper by Marko Mikkonen and Ilkka Laakso in the special section on “The Best Papers from the EMTS 2016 Young Scientist Awards”, pp. 13-18. (Lower fi gure) Passive microwave imagery from the NASA TRMM satellite, depicting the eyewall replacement cycle in Hurricane Dean on August 17, 2007, at 2254 UTC. All images are from the 85 GHz channel, in which ice scattering reveals areas of deep convection displayed in the red shades (image courtesy of the Naval Research Laboratory, NRL). See the paper by Michel Parrot in the special section on “Radio Science for Humanity: URSI-France 2017 Workshop”, pp. 75-79. The International Union of Radio Science (URSI) is a foundation Union (1919) of the International Council of Scientifi c Unions as direct and immediate successor of the Commission Internationale de Télégraphie Sans Fil which dates from 1914. 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