Automated diagnostics for resonance signature recognition on IMAGE/RPI plasmagrams

Radio Science

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 189-199

  Galkin, Ivan A ^a   Reinisch, Bodo W ^a   Huang, Xueqin ^a   Benson, Robert F ^b   Fung, Shing F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Intelligent systems; Radio Plasma Imager; Radio sounding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; HARMONIC GENERATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAGNETOSPHERE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PLASMA THEORY; RADIO TRANSMISSION; SIGNAL DETECTION;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; RADIO PLASMA IMAGERS (RPI); RADIO SOUNDING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 1942474585     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003rs002921     Document Type: Article

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