First results from the disaster monitoring constellation (DMC)

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 56, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 261-271

  Da Silva Curiel, Alex ^a   Boland, Lee ^a   Cooksley, John ^a   Bekhti, Mohammed ^b   Stephens, Paul ^a   Sun, Wei ^a   Sweeting, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre National des Techniques Spatiale Oran   (Algeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENSORS; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DISASTER MONITORING CONSTELLATION (DMC); EARTH OBSERVATION (EO); SPACE MISSIONS; SURREY SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED (SSTL) (CO);

DISASTER PREVENTION;

EID: 9944254171     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2004.09.026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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