Focused 70-cm wavelength radar mapping of the moon

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4032-4042

  Campbell, Bruce A ^a,b   Campbell, Donald B ^c   Margot, J L ^c   Ghent, Rebecca R ^d   Nolan, Michael ^e   Chandler, John ^f   Carter, Lynn M ^b   Stacy, Nicholas J S ^g  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e ARECIBO OBSERVATORY   (Puerto Rico)

^f SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^g DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Moon; Radar imaging

Indexed keywords

LUNAR SURFACE MATERIALS; MULTISPECTRAL DATA; RADAR IMAGES;

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TELESCOPES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 36348999897     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.906582     Document Type: Conference Paper

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