Simultaneous meteor echo observations by large-aperture VHF and UHF radars

Radio Science

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1641-1654

  Zhou, Q H ^a   Perillat, P ^a   Cho, J Y N ^b   Mathews, J D ^c  

^a ARECIBO OBSERVATORY   (Puerto Rico)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; PERFORMANCE; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING;

LARGE APERTURE RADARS;

METEORITES;

EID: 0032203008     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98RS02430     Document Type: Article

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