topic Re: Cell Tower Sector Dimensions in State & Local Government Questions

Cell Tower Sector Dimensions

JoeBorgione — Wed, 14 May 2014 15:33:35 GMT

I'm trying to decipher cell sector data from various providers to determine the coverage area of a given sector. I'm not using version 10.2 so the Cell Phone Analysis tool isn't an option for now.

It's a no-brainer to extract the lat long from the routing sheet and create a point class. However I'm unsure of the other attributes typically provided:

Sector Radius: it may say something like <1km but >2km. To me this means the range of the antenna is somewhere around 1.5km or so. If it's an omni-directional antenna (360 degrees) the coverage would be basically a buffer of 1500 meters around the tower x,y.

Sector Azimuth: appears to be given in degrees

Beam Width: not sure what the units are but I'm guessing degrees.

How does one determine the dimensions of a sector polygon given this data? Let's say you have an azimuth of 125, which in my book is South East on the compass. And a Beam Width of 90. Do you add 45 degrees to 125 for one edge of the sector and subtract 45 degrees from 125 for the other edge?

Re: Cell Tower Sector Dimensions

JoeBorgione — Wed, 14 May 2014 20:40:53 GMT

I obtained this tool written by ToddZ431; my thanks to TimW1984 for passing along the info.

Kudos to both you guys!

Re: Cell Tower Sector Dimensions

TimWitt — Thu, 15 May 2014 11:06:09 GMT

Yes its a great tool that makes building sectors very easy! I'm glad I was able to help you!

Re: Cell Tower Sector Dimensions

EvaShoemaker-Maffei — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:53:34 GMT

I can't get that tool written by ToddZ431 to come up. It doesn't go anywhere when I click on this tool.

Re: Cell Tower Sector Dimensions

JoeBorgione — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:18:39 GMT

Eva- my guess is it's somewhere else now that we are on the GeoNet. Can't venture a guess as to where though. Send me a private message with your email and I'll send it to you. It works really well...

Re: Cell Tower Sector Dimensions

EvaShoemaker-Maffei — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 21:02:11 GMT

I can't find a way to send you an email on GeoNet .

Re: Cell Tower Sector Dimensions

AnthonyGiles — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 21:05:13 GMT

The only way you can private message is when both parties are following each other, you then get the option

Re: Cell Tower Sector Dimensions

shaikaplan — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 13:06:57 GMT

Hello Joe,

I am trying to create 16 sectors for each point (22.5 deg each) in order to calculate the water and vegetation fraction in each.

Can the tool you have work for me? I will try to figure out how to follow you so I can give you my email.

Re: Cell Tower Sector Dimensions

JoeBorgione — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:46:00 GMT

The tool is available here:

http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=9ac78cd092b640b3b69c6093e1be40bf

It has worked great for me; it's been a while since I used it last, but as long as I have the dimensions of the sectors, it works like a charm.