High sensitivity radar-optical observations of faint meteors

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E84-C, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1877-1884

  Nishimura, Koji ^a   Sato, Toru ^a   Nakamura, Takuji ^a   Ueda, Masayoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Iccd video camera; Meteor observation; Mu radar; Sensor fusion; Space environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747270038     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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