Medac/sc: a third generation meteor echo detection and collection system

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 15-21

  Valentic, Todd A ^a   Avery, James P ^a   Avery, Susan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DOPPLER RADAR; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MULTIPROGRAMMING; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND;

METEOR ECHO DETECTION AND COLLECTION SYSTEM; UPPER ATMOSPHERE WIND PROFILES;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0029735611     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.481886     Document Type: Article

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