Initial results of data collected by the APL D2P radar altimeter over land and sea ice

Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory)

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 114-122

  Leuschen, Carl J ^a,b,c,d,e   Raney, R Keith ^a,d,f,g  

^a APL   (United States)

^b European Space Agency's Mars Express Mission ^*  (United States)

^c SHARAD Sounder Aboard   (United States)

^d IEEE   (United States)

^e Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society   (United States)

^f Science Advisory Group

^g Lunar Radar Orbiter Science Working Group

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOSPHERE; LASER ALTIMETER; RADAR DATA; SATELLITE-BASED ALTIMETERS;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; LASERS; SATELLITES;

RADAR;

EID: 33745460473     PISSN: 02705214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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