Development of a multi-frequency airborne radar instrumentation package for ice sheet mapping and imaging

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 157-160

  Rodriguez Morales, F ^a   Gogineni, P ^a   Leuschen, C ^a   Allen, C ^a   Lewis, C ^a   Patel, A ^a   Byers, K ^a   Smith, L ^a   Shi, L ^a   Panzer, B ^a   Blake, W ^a   Crowe, R ^a   Gifford, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne radar; Radar altimetry; UHF radar; VHF radar

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE RADARS; ANTARCTICA; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; DEPTH SOUNDERS; FIELD TEST; FREQUENCY-MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVES; ICE SHEET; INSTANTANEOUS BANDWIDTH; INSTRUMENTATION PACKAGES; INSTRUMENTATION SUITE; INTERNAL LAYERS; KU BAND; MEAN SEA LEVEL; MULTI FREQUENCY; MULTI-CHANNEL; POLAR ICE SHEETS; PULSED RADARS; RADAR ALTIMETRY; THIRD COMPONENT; UHF RADAR; VHF RADAR;

BANDWIDTH; CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR; GLACIERS; ICE; INSTRUMENTS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SEA LEVEL;

RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 77957810624     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2010.5516687     Document Type: Conference Paper

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