Magellan Imaging Radar Mission to Venus

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 1991, Pages 777-790

  Johnson, William T K ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; RADAR - SYNTHETIC APERTURE; SPACE FLIGHT - INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; TELEMETERING;

MAGELLAN IMAGING RADAR; MAGELLAN MISSION TO VENUS; RADAR ALTIMETRY; RADIOMETRY;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0026169163     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.90157     Document Type: Article

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