Subsurface survey of the Antarctic ice sheet using a mobile radio-echo sounder

Journal of the Communications Research Laboratory

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 139-149

  Maeno, Hideo ^b   Uratsuka, Seiho ^d   Okamoto, Ken'ichi ^c   Watanabe, Okitsugu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b Microwave Remote Sensing Section

^c Global Environment Division

^d Planning Section   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antarctic; Ice flow; Ice sheet; Polarimetry; Radio echo sounding

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK TOPOGRAPHY; RADIO ECHO SOUNDING (RES); SURFACE FLOW VECTORS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ICE; POLARIMETERS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030180452     PISSN: 09149260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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