Initiatives for millimetre/submillimetre-wave sounding from geostationary orbit

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 548-552

  Bizzarri, Bizzarro ^a   Gasiewski, Albin ^a   Staelin, David ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); MILLIMETER WAVES; TEMPERATURE;

GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT; SUBMILLIMETRE-WAVE SOUNDING;

ORBITS;

EID: 0036028656     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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