Threshold and timing errors of 1 bit/2 level digital correlators in Earth observation synthetic aperture radiometry

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 812-814

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

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Correlators; Radiometry; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

COMPARATOR CIRCUITS; CORRELATORS; DIGITAL DEVICES; GEOPHYSICS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CLIPPING FACTORS; DIGITAL CORRELATORS; EARTH OBSERVATION; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; SAMPLERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETRY; THRESHOLD ERRORS; TIMING ERRORS;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 0031124553     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19970526     Document Type: Article

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