Compact sub millimeter wavelength heterodyne radiometer for arrays

2011 30th URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, URSIGASS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Treuttel, Jeanne ^a   Maestrini, Alain ^a   Alderman, Byron ^b   Wang, Hui ^b   Sanghera, Hosh ^b   Matheson, David ^b   DeMaagt, Peter ^c  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2-D FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; ELEMENT ARRAY; HETERODYNE RADIOMETER; INPUT/OUTPUT; LOCAL OSCILLATOR POWER; SUBMILLIMETER WAVELENGTHS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS;

RADIOMETERS;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 81255207842     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/URSIGASS.2011.6050797     Document Type: Conference Paper

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