Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microwave Radiometry for the Remote Sensing of the Earth

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1988, Pages 597-611

  Ruf, Christopher S ^a   Swift, Calvin T ^a   Tanner, Alan B ^a   Le Vine, David M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS -- PHASED ARRAYS; IMAGE PROCESSING -- RECONSTRUCTION; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR -- SYNTHETIC APERTURE; REMOTE SENSING -- MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS;

EARTH'S BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; ELECTRONICALLY STEERED THINNED ARRAY RADIOMETER (ESTAR); INTERFEROMETRIC APERTURE SYNTHESIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING; UHF RADIOMETRY;

GEOPHYSICS;

EID: 0024070948     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.7685     Document Type: Article

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