SAR calibration using frequency-tunable active radar calibrators

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 1 II, 1999, Pages 564-573

  Shimada, Masanobu ^a   Oaku, Hiromi ^a   Nakai, Masao ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calibration; Frequency tunable active radar calibrator (ARC); Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FREQUENCY TUNABLE ACTIVE RADAR CALIBRATORS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032758201     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.739116     Document Type: Article

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