CRL airborne multiparameter precipitation radar (CAMPR) : System description and preliminary results

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E79-B, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 770-777

  Kumagai, Hiroshi ^a   Nakamura, Kenji ^b   Hanado, Hiroshi ^a   Okamoto, KeN'ichi ^c   Hosaka, Naoki ^d   Miyano, Noriaki ^d   Kozu, Toshiaki ^c   Takahashi, Nobuhiro ^a   Iguchi, Toshio ^c   Miyauchi, Hiroshi ^d  

^a Satellite Communications Section   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^d TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airborne radar measurement; Multiparameter radar; Rain radar; TRMM

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; ORBITS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADAR SYSTEMS; RAIN; SATELLITES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

AIRBORNE MULTIPARAMETER PRECIPITATION RADAR; AIRBORNE RADAR MEASUREMENT; MULTIPARAMETER RADAR; PRECIPITATION RADAR; RAIN RADAR;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 0030173340     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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