Initial Results in the Development of a Synthetic Aperture Microwave Radiometer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 614-619

  Le Vine, David M ^a   Kao, Michael ^a   Tanner, Alan B ^b   Swift, Calvin T ^b   Griffis, Andrew ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING--DATA REDUCTION AND ANALYSIS; MICROWAVES; REMOTE SENSING;

ANTENNA COLLECTING AREA; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETERS;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0025456070     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1990.572965     Document Type: Article

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