Towards a common terminology in radioglaciology

Schlegel, Rebecca; Kulessa, Bernd; Murray, Tavi; Eisen, Olaf

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Towards a common terminology in radioglaciology

Rebecca Schlegel, Bernd Kulessa

, Tavi Murray

, Olaf Eisen

Annals of Glaciology, Volume: 63, Issue: 87-89, Pages: 8 - 12

Swansea University Authors: Bernd Kulessa , Tavi Murray

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Over the past 70 years, many different components of the cryosphere have been imaged with a variety of radar systems using increasingly sophisticated processing techniques. These systems use various pulse lengths, signal frequencies and, in some cases, modulated signals. The increasing diversity of...

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