STATISTICAL THEORY OF INCOHERENT SCATTER RADAR MEASUREMENTS

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 0. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 0.1 Physical Principles of Incoherent Scatter Measurements . . . . . . . 9 0.2 The Basic Requirements Posed on an Experiment . . . . . . . . 11 0.3 Classical Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 0.4 Aims of the Present Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 0.5 The Structure of the Thesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 1. Elementary Inversion Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 1.

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