Interferometric meteor radar phase calibration using meteor echoes

Radio Science

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Holdsworth, David A ^a,b   Tsutsumi, Masaki ^c   Reid, Iain M ^b   Nakamura, Takuji ^d   Tsuda, Toshitaka ^d  

^a Atmospheric Radar Systems   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calibration; Meteor; Radar

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; INTERFEROMETERS; METEOROLOGY; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INTERFEROMETRIC METEOR RADAR PHASE SYSTEMS; METEOR ECHOS; METEOR RADAR; NUMERICAL ELECTROMAGNETIC CODE (NEC) SIMULATION;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 10944248085     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003RS003026     Document Type: Article

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