FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC GPS radio occultation mission: Preliminary results

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3813-3826

  Liou, Yuei An ^a,b   Pavelyev, Alexander G ^d   Liu, Shuo Fang ^e   Pavelyev, Alexey A ^d   Yen, Nick ^c   Huang, C Y ^c   Fong, Chen Joe ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL SPACE ORGANIZATION   (Taiwan)

^d INST OF RADIO ENG AND ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^e NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Atmospheric refractivity; Global positioning system (GPS) remote sensing; Layered structures

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTIVITY; LAYERED STRUCTURES; RADIO OCCULTATION (RO);

CORRELATION METHODS; IONOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY; RADIO WAVES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SATELLITES;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 35648941689     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.903365     Document Type: Conference Paper

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