Evaluation of Surface Clutter for the Design of the TRMM Spaceborne Radar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 444-453

  Hanado, Hiroshi ^a   Ihara, Toshio ^a  

^a Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS - RADAR; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR - DESIGN; RADAR - SPACE APPLICATIONS; RAIN AND RAINFALL - MEASUREMENTS;

RAIN ECHO INTENSITY; SURFACE CLUTTER INTERFERENCE; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0026868669     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.142922     Document Type: Article

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