End-to-end simulation of the performance of WALES: Forward module

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn 2, Issue 561, 2004, Pages 1011-1014

  Bauer, Heinz ^a   Bauer, Hans Stefan ^a   Wulfmeyer, Volker ^a   Wirth, Martin ^b   Mayer, Bernhard ^b   Ehret, Gerhard ^b   Summa, Donate ^c   Girolamo, Paolo Di ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSMITTERS;

DIGITIZATIONS; END-TO-END MODELS; SIGNAL PROPAGATION; TRACE GASES;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 3142572833     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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