"Satellites in Low Earth Orbits (LEO) have very wide applications for scientific missions, including but not limited to remote sensing of oceans, analyses of Earth's climate changes, mapping, Earth's imagery with high resolution, navigation, management of Earth's resources, astronomy, military, agriculture, and extreme events affecting the world's population. The most convenient structures for such use are low Earth orbit satellites, since they fly closer to the Earth compared to the other orbits, and consequently provide significantly lower latency, which is essential for reliable and safe communications, and ground stations must be established in order to communicate with such missions. In this book, the author consolidates over twenty years of research, including mathematical analysis, experiments and simulations to provide a guide to ground station performance evaluation at any worldwide LEO station. By focusing on four key components - ideas, methodology, results and conclusions - this innovative tutorial approach offers an advanced level guide to ground station design"-- Provided by publisher.