Development of an Active Radar Calibrator for the TRMM Precipitation Radar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 1316-1318

  Okamoto, Ken'ichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BANDWIDTH; CALCULATIONS; CALIBRATION; MEASUREMENTS; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TELEMETERING; TRANSMITTERS; TRANSPONDERS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ACTIVE RADAR CALIBRATOR; PRECIPITATION RADAR; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION SATELLITE;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 0029409470     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.477186     Document Type: Article

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