Conventionality of pictorial representation in interstellar messages

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 733-736

  Vakoch, D A ^a  

^a SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CODES (SYMBOLS); EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; EXTRATERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATION LINKS; SIGNAL ENCODING;

INTERSTELLAR MESSAGES; PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION; SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 0343279990     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(00)00040-0     Document Type: Article

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