Development of precipitation radar onboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 102-116

  Kozu, Toshiaki ^a   Kawanishi, Toneo ^b   Kuroiwa, Hiroshi ^c   Kojima, Masahiro ^d   Oikawa, Koki ^e   Kumagai, Hiroshi ^f   Okamoto, KeN'Ichi ^a   Okumura, Minoru ^a   Nakatsuka, Hirotaka ^c   Nishikawa, Katsuhiko ^d  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^e TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^f NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN; SPACE APPLICATIONS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION (TRMM);

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 0035111983     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.898669     Document Type: Article

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