How the Saint Santin incoherent scatter system paved the way for a French involvement in EISCAT

This paper relates the development of a French incoherent scatter system which started its operations in 1965. This development took place several years after the initial implementation of such systems in the United States, in Peru and in the United Kingdom. The French system, owing to its bistatic...

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Main Authors: P. Bauer, A. Giraud, W. Kofman, M. Petit, P. Waldteufel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2013-09-01
Series:History of Geo- and Space Sciences
Online Access:http://www.hist-geo-space-sci.net/4/97/2013/hgss-4-97-2013.pdf