The rough surface impulse response of a pulse-limited altimeter with an elliptical antenna pattern

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages 232-235

  Wingham, D J ^a   Wallis, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altimetry; Antennas; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETRY; ANALYTIC APPROXIMATION; CRYOSAT; ELLIPTICAL ANTENNAS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OCEAN SURFACES; ROUGH SURFACES; SPHERICAL SURFACE; SURFACE GRADIENTS;

IMPULSE RESPONSE; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE ANTENNAS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 77951001864     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2010.2046471     Document Type: Article

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