Development of spaceborne dual frequency precipitation radar for the global precipitation measurement mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6361, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Shimizu, Shuji ^a   Oki, Riko ^a   Kojima, Masahiro ^a   Iguchi, Toshio ^b   Nakamura, Kenji ^c  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

DPR; GPM; Precipitation measurement; TRMM

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; MAPPING; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RAIN;

PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; RAINDROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845666206     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.694963     Document Type: Conference Paper

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