Orbit determination of meteors using the MU radar

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E83-B, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1990-1995

  Satq, Toru ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Doppler pulse compression; Meteor observation; Mu radar; Orbit determination; Space environment

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DOPPLER PULSE COMPRESSIONS; METEOR STORMS;

RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034271408     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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