NASA Radar Altimeter for the TOPEX/POSEIDON Project

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 1991, Pages 810-826

  Zieger, Alfred R ^a   Hancock, David W ^b   Hayne, George S ^b   Purdy, Craig L ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY; RADAR; RADIO ALTIMETERS; RADIO TRANSMISSION - PROPAGATION IN IONOSPHERE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

NASA RADAR ALTIMETER; TOPEX/POSEIDON PROJECT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0026169212     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.90160     Document Type: Article

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