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we find this term in our study of Satellite Communication.
The footprint of a Communication satellite is the ground area that its transponders offer coverage, and determines the satellite dish transmiter required to receive each transponder's signal. There is usually a different map for each transponder as each may be aimed to cover different areas of the ground.
Satellite footprint is the ground area that its transponders offer coverage, and determines the satellite dish diameter required to receive each transponder's signal.
The coverage area for satellite down link is called footprint. we mostly consider it for down linking our required signal. Each satellite has different footprints for different areas like south-asia beam, Middle East beam and so on.
Simply it is the coverage Area of any satellite.
footprint is the just like a shadow of satellite in which the country or location are on the shadow then, you can get the signal
