Cloud profiling radar performance

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 5061-5064

  Im, Eastwood ^a   Tanelli, Simone ^a   Durden, Stephen L ^a   Pak, Kyung ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

A train; Clouds; CloudSat; Radar

Indexed keywords

CLOUD PROFILING RADAR (CPR); RADAR PERFORMANCE;

BANDWIDTH; CLOUDS; IMAGE RESOLUTION;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 56849091500     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4422997     Document Type: Conference Paper

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