Decoding of Barker-coded incoherent scatter measurements by means of mathematical inversion

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-13

  Damtie, B ^a   Lehtinen, M S ^b   Nygren T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Radio science (ionospheric physics; signal processing; instruments and techniques)

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; IONOSPHERE; RADAR; SCATTERING;

EID: 1142269656     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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