BSMILES - A balloon-borne superconducting submillimeter-wave limb-emission sounder for stratospheric measurements

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 88-92

  Irimajiri, Yoshihisa ^b   Manabe, Takeshi ^a,c   Ochiai, Satoshi ^b   Masuko, Harunobu ^a,b   Yamagami, Takamasa ^d   Saito, Yoshitaka ^d   Izutsu, Naoki ^d   Kawasaki, Tomomi ^d   Namiki, Michiyoshi ^d   Murata, Isao ^e  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Balloon application; Stratospheric measurement; Submillimeter wave technology; Superconductor insulator super conductor (SIS) mixer

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BALLOONS; ISOTOPES; PARABOLIC ANTENNAS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

BALLOON APPLICATIONS; STRATOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS; SUMILLIMETER-WAVE TECHNOLOGY; SUPERCONDUCTOR-INSULATOR-SUPERCONDUCTOR (SIS) MIXERS; THERMAL EMISSIONS;

SUBMILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 31144466604     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2005.856712     Document Type: Article

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