Ionospheric structures invisible in satellite radiotomography

Radio Science

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 605-616

  Saksman, Eero ^a   Nygrén, Tuomo ^b   Markkanen, Markku ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; IONOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; RADIO INTERFERENCE; RADIO TRANSMITTERS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; FUNCTIONS; INVERSE TRANSFORMS; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL METHODS; SATELLITES; TOMOGRAPHY;

HORIZONTAL GRADIENTS; SATTELITE RADIOTOMOGRAPHY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

HORIZONTAL GRADIENTS; INFINITE NUMBERS; IONOSPHERIC ELECTRON DENSITIES; IONOSPHERIC STRUCTURES; RADIOTOMOGRAPHY; RADON TRANSFORM; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; TRAVELING IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES;

EID: 0031099507     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96RS03446     Document Type: Article

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