The shallow RADar (SHARAD) Onboard the NASA MRO mission

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 794-807

  Croci, Renato ^a   Seu, Roberto ^b   Flamini, Enrico ^c   Russo, Enrico ^c  

^a THALES ALENIA SPACE ITALIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calibration; clutter; ground penetrating radar (GPR); spaceborne radar

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ANTENNAS; BANDWIDTH; CALIBRATION; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; NASA; ORBITS; SOLAR CELL ARRAYS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE-BASED RADAR;

FRACTIONAL BANDWIDTHS; GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); IN-FLIGHT PERFORMANCE; INSTRUMENT SYSTEMS; ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY; MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITERS; SUBSAMPLING TECHNIQUES;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

EID: 79955507527     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2010.2104130     Document Type: Conference Paper

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