Inflight vertical antenna patterns for SIR-C from Amazon rain-forest observations

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 407-414

  Fang, Yujun ^a   Moore, Richard K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA; RADAR; RAINFOREST; SIR-C; VERTICAL PATTERN;

BRAZIL, AMAZONIA;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; RADAR ANTENNAS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

RAIN FORESTS; SCATTEROMETERS; SHUTTLE IMAGING RADAR C/X SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SIR-C/X-SAR);

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0030615376     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(96)00163-0     Document Type: Article

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