Atmospheric Propagation heterogeneities revealed by ERS-1 interferometry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 989-992

  Tarayre, H ^a   Massonnet, D ^b  

^a Matra Cap Systemes   (France)

^b CNES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENCE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLOUDS; IONOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE SHIFT; RAIN; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ATMOSPHERIC PROPAGATION; GEOMETRIC CONDITIONS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; INTERFEROMETRIC IMAGES; REMOTE SENSING TOOLS; REPEAT PASS INTERFEROMETRIES; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC HETEROGENEITY DETECTION; ERS-1; SAR INTERFEROMETRY;

ATMOSPHERIC PROPAGATION; CUMULUS; FRACTIONAL WAVELENGTH DIFFERENCE; HETEROGENEITIES; INTERFEROGRAMS; RAY THEORY MODEL; REFRACTIVE ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 0029666569     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00622     Document Type: Article

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