Tomographic reconstruction of 630.0 nm emission structure for a polar cap arc

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1119-1122

  Doe, Richard A ^a   Kelly, John D ^a   Semeter, Joshua L ^b   Steele, David P ^c  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC ARCS; GEOPHYSICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT EMISSION; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; EARTH SCIENCES;

MONOCHROMATIC IMAGERS; POLAR CAP ARCS;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

AURORA; ELECTRODYNAMICS; POLAR CAP ARC;

CANADA, CANADIAN ARCTIC;

CANADIAN ARCTIC; ELEVATION ANGLE; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; GROUND STATIONS; MONOCHROMATIC IMAGERS; PLASMA DIFFUSION; TIME EVOLUTIONS; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0031133859     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00828     Document Type: Article

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