Aircraft Measurements of the Microwave Scattering Signature of the Ocean

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1977, Pages 52-61

  Mitchell, John L ^b   Schroeder, Lyle C ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Vought Corporation ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADAR - MEASUREMENTS APPLICATION; RADAR INTERFERENCE - CLUTTER; RADIOMETERS; WATER WAVES - MEASUREMENTS;

SCATTEROMETERS;

MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 0017415757     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.1977.1141533     Document Type: Article

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