Impact of the ionosphere on an L-band space based radar

CIE International Conference of Radar Proceedings

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 51-58

  Chapin, Elaine ^a   Chan, Samuel F ^a   Chapman, Bruce D ^a   Chen, Curtis W ^a   Martin, Jan M ^a   Michel, Thierry R ^a   Muellerschoen, Ronald J ^a   Pi, Xiaoqing ^a   Rosen, Paul A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACTS; AZIMUTH DISPLACEMENT; AZIMUTH RESOLUTION; IONOSPHERIC ARTIFACTS; SCINTILLATION DATA;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPACE SURVEILLANCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 33751056157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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