Sensing Ocean, ice and land reflected signals from space: Results from the UK-DMC GPS reflectometry experiment

Proceedings of the 18th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation, ION GNSS 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1679-1685

  Gleason, Scott ^a,b   Adjrad, Mounir ^b   Unwin, Martin ^a  

^a SURREY SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ORBITING SATELLITE; GAIN CONFIGURATIONS; SIGNAL REFLECTION;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; ICE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SATELLITES; SPACE RESEARCH;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 33646572594     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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