Computing twodimensional unambiguous horizontal wavenumber spectra from oh airglow images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 368382-

  Coble, Mark R ^a   Papen, George C ^a   Gardner, Chester S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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