Range imaging using frequency diversity

Radio Science

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1485-1496

  Palmer, Robert D ^a   Yu, Tian You ^a   Chilson, Phillip B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; THERMOANALYSIS; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SPACE-BASED RADAR;

FREQUENCY DIVERSITY; RANGE IMAGING;

RADAR IMAGING; RADAR SYSTEMS;

BANDWIDTH CONSTRAINT; FREQUENCY DOMAIN INTERFEROMETRY; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; HIGH VERTICAL RESOLUTION; HUMIDITY AND TEMPERATURES; INERTIA GRAVITY WAVES; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ BILLOWS; TRANSMITTER FREQUENCIES;

EID: 0033225952     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999RS900089     Document Type: Article

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