Doppler velocity calibration study for Cloud Profiling Radar on earthcare

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4629-4632

  Horie, Hiroaki ^a   Ohno, Yuichi ^a   Sato, Kenji ^a   Nakagawa, Katsuhiro ^a   Takahashi, Nobuhiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

calibration; Doppler radar; millimeter wave radar; Spaceborne radar

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE RADAR CALIBRATORS; ANTENNA BEAMS; CLOUD PROFILING RADAR; CLOUD PROFILING RADARS; CLOUDSAT; DOPPLER VELOCITY; EARTHCARE; EXTERNAL CALIBRATION; FEASIBILITY EXPERIMENTS; MILLIMETER WAVE RADAR; RADIAL VELOCITY; SATELLITE VELOCITY; SPACEBORNE DOPPLER RADAR; SPACEBORNE RADAR; TRANSMITTING SIGNAL;

CALIBRATION; DOPPLER RADAR; GEOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE ANTENNAS; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

VELOCITY;

EID: 84873137291     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350434     Document Type: Conference Paper

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