Land earth station
A land earth station is – according to Article 1.70 of the International Telecommunication Union's ITU Radio Regulations – defined as "An earth station in the fixed-satellite service or, in some cases, in the mobile-satellite service, located at a specified fixed point or within a specified area on land to provide a feeder link for the mobile-satellite service." Each station shall be classified by the service in which it operates permanently or temporarily.
Classification
In accordance with ITU Radio Regulations this type of radio station might be classified as follows:Earth station
- Mobile earth station of the mobile-satellite service
- Land earth station
- *Land mobile earth station of the land mobile-satellite service
- Base earth station of the fixed-satellite service
- Coast earth station of the fixed-satellite service / mobile-satellite service
- Ship earth station of the mobile-satellite service
- Aeronautical earth station of the fixed-satellite service / aeronautical mobile-satellite service
- Aircraft earth station of the ''aeronautical mobile-satellite service''