Title :
Mars meter-scale roughness: Goldstone Solar System Radar delay-Doppler database
Author :
Haldermnn, A.F.C. ; Jurgens, R.F. ; Slade, M.A.
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
The entire fourteen-year database of Goldstone Solar System Radar Mars near-nadir radar scattering model fits is being revised using the latest topography from the Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter instrument. The improved radar dataset will better serve the Mars exploration community for landing site selection and characterization.
Keywords :
Mars; planetary surfaces; radioastronomy; 3.5 cm; AD 1988 to 2001; Goldstone Solar System Radar; Mars; landing site selection; metre scale topography; planetary surface; radar astronomy; radar delay Doppler database; radar scattering; radioastronomy; roughness; Databases; Delay systems; Electromagnetic scattering; Laboratories; Laser radar; Mars; Propulsion; Radar scattering; Radar tracking; Solar system;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7536-X
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026481
