The SIR-C/X-SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar System

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 829-839

  Jordan, Rolando L ^a   Huneycutt, Bryan L ^a   Werner, Marian ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; WAVEGUIDES;

ACTIVE PHASED ARRAY; ELECTRONIC BEAM STEERING; MULTIPLE SWATH WIDTH ILLUMINATION; QUAD POLARIZATION; SLOTTED WAVEGUIDE ANTENNA; SPACEBORNE MULTIFREQUENCY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0029339807     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.406669     Document Type: Article

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