The delay/doppler radar altimeter

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 5 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1578-1588

  Keith Raney, R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler beam sharpening; Radar altimeter; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; DOPPLER RADAR; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR IMAGING; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SEA ICE;

DOPPLER BEAM SHARPENING; RADAR ALTIMETERS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032164940     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.718861     Document Type: Article

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