Phase Calibration of Polarimetric Radars from Slightly Rough Surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 712-715

  Guissard, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ERRORS; MOISTURE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SOILS; SURFACES;

COPOLAR VERTICAL RETURNS; PHASE CALIBRATION; POLARIMETRIC RADAR; ROUGH SURFACE;

RADAR;

EID: 0028429861     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.297991     Document Type: Article

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