This paper presents Rice-K model which is statistical for a land mobile satellite link in non-urban areas.This model assumes that the slow changes on the received signal envelope are K-dsitributed due to the shadowing and the multi-path fading including the line of sight path component is Rician distributed.On this basis

the expressions of cumulative density probability function (c.d.f) and the bit error probability of the received signal envelope are derived.Furthermore

the parameters of Rice-K model are estimated by means of moment method in which sample moments and normalised sample moments are used.Also

performance of this kind of parameter estimation is studied.Finally

Rice-K model is validated through the comparison between measured data and the analytical curve given by Rice-K model.