Simultaneous observation of lunar radar sounder and laser altimeter of kaguya for lunar regolith layer thickness estimate

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 435-439

  Kobayashi, Takao ^a   Kim, Jung Ho ^a   Lee, Seung Ryeol ^a   Araki, Hiroshi ^b   Ono, Takayuki ^c  

^a Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kaguya; Laser ALTimeter (LALT); Lunar Radar Sounder (LRS); regolith

Indexed keywords

HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INVERSION PROCESS; LASER ALTIMETER; LAYER THICKNESS; LUNAR EXPLORATIONS; LUNAR REGOLITH; RADAR SOUNDER; SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; LUNAR MISSIONS; LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADAR; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS;

EID: 77954621531     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2038499     Document Type: Article

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