An imaging interferometry capability for the EISCAT Svalbard Radar

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 221-230

  Grydeland, Tom ^a   Chau, J L ^b   La Hoz, C ^a,c   Brekke, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^c Earth/Atmospheric Science Department ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (instruments and techniques); Radio science (interferometry); Space plasma physics (instrumetns and techniques)

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETER;

EID: 15544384160     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-23-221-2005     Document Type: Article

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