Performance of the improved Abel transform to estimate electron density profiles from GPS occultation data

GPS Solutions

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 105-110

  Garcia Fernandez, M ^a,b   Hernandez Pajares, M ^b   Juan, J M ^b   Sanz, J ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

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EID: 23044477010     PISSN: 10805370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10291-005-0139-5     Document Type: Article

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