Block Adaptive Quantization of Magellan SAR Data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1989, Pages 375-383

  Kwok, Ronald ^a   Johnson, William T K ^b  

^a Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology ^*

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY--DATA COMPRESSION; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE FLIGHT--INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

BLOCK ADAPTIVE QUANTIZATION; BURST-MODE SAR OPERATION; MAGELLAN RADAR BLOCK ADAPTIVE QUANTIZER; MAGELLAN SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA;

RADAR;

EID: 0024703141     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.29557     Document Type: Article

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