Cassini Titan Radar Mapper

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 1991, Pages 867-880

  Elachi, Charles ^a   Im, Eastwood ^a   Roth, Ladislav E ^a   Werner, Charles L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS - RADAR; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAPS AND MAPPING; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SPACE FLIGHT - INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

CASSINI SATURN MISSION; CASSINI TITAN RADAR MAPPER; KU-BAND ANTENNA; SCATTEROMETRY;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0026173177     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.90164     Document Type: Article

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