Echo source discrimination in single-pass airborne radar sounding data from the Dry Valleys, Antarctica: Implications for orbital sounding of Mars

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Holt, John W ^a   Peters, Matthew E ^a   Kempf, Scott D ^a   Morse, David L ^a   Blankenship, Donald D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ECHO SOUNDING; MARS; RADAR;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS;

EID: 33750626243     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JE002525     Document Type: Article

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