Synthetic Aperture Radar Calibration Using Reference Reflectors

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 374-383

  Gray, A Laurence ^a   Vachon, Paris W ^a   Livingstone, Charles E ^a   Lukowski, Tom I ^a  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY--RANDOM PROCESSES; RADAR IMAGING--CALIBRATION; RADAR INTERFERENCE--CLUTTER; SIGNAL PROCESSING--DIGITAL TECHNIQUES;

FADING ERRORS; INTEGRAL METHOD; REFERENCE REFLECTORS; SAR IMAGE CALIBRATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR CALIBRATION; TERRAIN BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENT;

RADAR;

EID: 0025430943     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.54363     Document Type: Article

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