Advanced multifrequency radar instrumentation for polar Research

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2824-2842

  Rodriguez Morales, Fernando ^a   Gogineni, Sivaprasad ^a   Leuschen, Carlton J ^a   Paden, John D ^a   Li, Jilu ^a   Lewis, Cameron C ^a   Panzer, Benjamin ^a   Gomez Garcia Alvestegui, Daniel ^a   Patel, Aqsa ^a   Byers, Kyle ^a,b   Crowe, Reid ^a,b   Player, Kevin ^a,b   Hale, Richard D ^a   Arnold, Emily J ^a   Smith, Logan ^a   Gifford, Christopher M ^a,c   Braaten, David ^a   Panton, Christian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b HONEYWELL   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Airborne radar; cryospheric remote sensing; radio echo sounding

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ANTENNAS; FREQUENCY BANDS; GLACIERS; RADAR; RADIO SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SNOW;

AERO-DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; AIRBORNE PLATFORMS; AIRBORNE RADARS; ANTENNA STRUCTURES; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; MULTIFREQUENCY RADAR; RADIO-ECHO SOUNDING; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS;

AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

AERODYNAMICS; ANTENNA; CRYOSPHERE; ICE SHEET; IMAGING METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLAR REGION; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION; SEA ICE; SENSOR; SNOW COVER; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 84896315477     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2266415     Document Type: Article

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