Polarimetric calibration of the SIR-C C-band channel using active radar calibrators and polarization selective dihedrals

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1872-1878

  Fujita, Masaharu ^a   Masuda, Toshihiro ^a   Fujino, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Depolarizing target; Polarimetry; Polarization selective target; Radar calibration; Shuttle imaging radar c (sir c)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING;

DEPOLARIZING TARGETS; POLARIMETRIC ACTIVE RADAR CALIBRATORS (PARC); POLARIZATION SELECTIVE DIHEDRALS; SHUTTLE IMAGING RADARS (SIR);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032206945     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.729358     Document Type: Article

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