Overview of Results of Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C, X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR)

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 817-828

  Stofan, Ellen R ^a   Schmullius, Christianna ^b   Holt, Benjamin ^a   Plaut, Jeffrey J ^a   van Zyl, Jakob ^a   Wall, Stephen D ^a   Way, Jobea ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR SYSTEMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MAPS; DYNAMIC GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY; PHASE DIFFERENCE; RADAR CALIBRATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0029341047     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.406668     Document Type: Article

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