Design and performance of a spinning flat reflector for millimeter-wave radiometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 464-466

  Jacobson, Mark D ^a   Nunnelee, William M ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; PERFORMANCE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY;

MILLIMETER WAVE RADIOMETERS; SPINNING FLAT REFLECTOR;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0031101572     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.563285     Document Type: Article

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