The tiny ionospheric photometer instrument design and operation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5660, Issue , 2004, Pages 259-270

  Kalmanson, Phillip C ^a,b   Budzien, Scott ^b   Coker, Clayton ^a,b   Dymond, Kenneth ^b  

^a PRAXIS INC   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aurora; COSMIC; Ionosphere; Photometer; ROCSAT 3

Indexed keywords

AURORA; COSMIC; PHOTOMETER DESIGN; ROCSAT-3;

CALIBRATION; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERE; MACHINE DESIGN; SATELLITES; TOMOGRAPHY;

PHOTOMETERS;

EID: 20344400628     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.578341     Document Type: Conference Paper

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