Radiometrie slope correction of synthetic-aperture radar images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1115-1122

  Ulander, Lars M H ^a,b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; CALIBRATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENT; CALIBRATION EQUATION; FRINGE FREQUENCIES; INTERFEROGRAM; RADIOMETRIC SLOPE CORRECTION; SCATTERING GEOMETRY;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0030243001     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.536527     Document Type: Article

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