High altitude compact solid state 95 GHz cloud radar

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 5, Issue , 2002, Pages 2672-2674

  Roman Nieves, J I ^a   Sekelsky, S M ^a   Carswell, J R ^a   Bolton, W R ^a   Tooman, T P ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; IMAGE QUALITY; MILLIMETER WAVES; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; VAPORS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

CLOUD RADAR; COMPACT MILLIMETER WAVE RADAR; DIGITAL IN PHASE DETECTION; MILLIMETER WAVE CLOUD RADAR; QUADRATURE IN PHASE DETECTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0036402555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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