Impact of receiver errors on the radiometric resolution of large two-dimensional aperture synthesis radiometers

Radio Science

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 629-641

  Torres, F ^a   Camps, A ^a   Bara J ^a   Corbella, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SPACE APPLICATIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENT ERRORS; INTERFEROMETERS; RADIO RECEIVERS;

AMPLITUDE AND PHASE ERROR; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; MICROWAVE IMAGING RADIOMETER BY APERTURE SYNTHESIS; RADIOMETRIC RESOLUTION; RECEIVER ERRORS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL APERTURE;

ERRORS; RADIOMETERS;

MICROWAVE IMAGING RADIOMETER BY APERTURE SYNTHESIS (MIRAS); RADIOMETRIC RESOLUTION;

EID: 0031096209     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96RS02944     Document Type: Article

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