Conceptual Performance of a Satellite Borne, Wide Swath Synthetic Aperture Radar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn GE-19, Issue 2, 1981, Pages 108-116

  Tomiyasu, Kiyo ^a  

^a General Electric   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SATELLITES - ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

SATELLITE BORNE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

RADAR EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0019558407     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1981.350361     Document Type: Article

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