Space station based tethered interferometer for natural disaster monitoring

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 700-706

  Moccia, Antonio ^a,c,d   D'Errico, Marco ^b,d,e   Vetrella, Sergio ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c Dipto Sci Ingegneria Spazio L

^d AIAA ^*

^e Dipto di Ingegneria Aerospaziale   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAPS; MONITORING; RADAR ANTENNAS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPACE STATIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TETHERLINES;

NATURAL DISASTER MONITORING; SPACE STATION ORBITAL DECAY; TETHERED PLATFORM DYNAMICS;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0030231319     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/3.26823     Document Type: Article

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