Radar Backscatter Measurement Accuracies Using Digital Doppler Processors in Spaceborne Scatterometers

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn GE-24, Issue 3, 1986, Pages 426-437

  Chi, Chong Yung ^a   Long, David G ^a   Li, Fuk Kwok ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING - DIGITAL TECHNIQUES;

DIGITAL DOPPLER PROCESSORS; RADAR BACKSCATTER; SPACEBORNE SCATTEROMETERS;

RADAR;

EID: 0022717818     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1986.289602     Document Type: Article

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