Ionospheric effects on synthetic aperture radar at 100 MHz to 2 GHz

Radio Science

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 257-268

  Ishimam, Akira ^a   Yasuo, Kuga ^a   Jun, Liu ^a   Kim, Yunjin ^b   Freeman, Tony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); GEOMAGNETISM; GROUP DELAY; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TURBULENCE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BIOMASS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FARADAY EFFECT; RADAR ANTENNAS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

BIOMASS MEASUREMENTS; FARADAY ROTATION EFFECT; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; IONOSPHERIC PARAMETERS; IONOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; REFRACTIVE INDEX FLUCTUATIONS; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; IONOSPHERE;

GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT (TEC);

EID: 0032760974     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: 1944799X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998RS900021     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Apresyan, L. A., Y. A. Kravtsov, Radiative Transfer, Statistical and Wave Aspects, Gordon and Breach, Newark, Piscataway, N.J., 1996.
2. El-Khamy, S. E., R. E. McIntosh, Optimum transionospheric pulse transmission, IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., 21, 269-273, 1973.
3. Fante, R. L., Wave propagation in random media-A system approach, Progress in Optics XXII, E. Wolf, 343-398, Elsevier Sci., New York, 1985.
4. Fante, R. L., Turbulence induced distortion of synthetic aperture radar image, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 32, 958-961, 1994.
5. Fitzgerald, T. J., Ionospheric effects on synthetic aperture radar at VHF URSI/EEE AP-S MeetingMontreal, Que., CanadaJuly 13-18, 1997.
6. Helloco, U. L., B. Uguen, G. Chassay, Ionospheric frequency-dispersion effects in polarimetric spaceborne-radar applications URSI/IEEE APS MeetingMontreal, Que., CanadaJuly 13-18, 1997.
7. Ishimaru, A., Wave Propagation and Scattering in Random Media, Academic Press, 1978; IEEE Press-Oxford University Press, N.J. 1997.
8. Ishimaru, A., K. J. Painter, Backscattered pulse shape due to small-angle multiple scattering in random media, Radio Sci., 15, 87-93, 1980.
9. Pi, X., A. J. Mannucci, U. J. Lindqwister, C. M. Ho, Monitoring of global ionospheric irregularities using the worldwide GPS network, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 2283-2286, 1997.
10. Quegan, S., J. Lamont, Ionospheric and tropospheric effects on synthetic aperture radar performance, Int. J. Remote Sens., I, 525-539, 1986.
11. Rignot, E. J., R. Zimmermann, J. J. Vanzyl, Spaceborne applications of P-band imaging radars for measuring forest biomass, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 33, 1162-1169, 1995.
12. Rodriguez, E., J. M. Martin, Theory design of interferometric synthetic aperture radars, Proc. IEEE, 139, 147-159, 1992.
13. Skolnik, M. I., Radar Handbook chap. 21, 21.1-21.22, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1990.
14. Wait, J. R., On the optimum receiver bandwidth for propagated pulsed signals, Proc. IEEE, 57, 1784-1785, 1969.
15. Yeh, K. C., C. H. Liu, Theory of Ionospheric Waves, Academic, San Diego, Calif., 1972.
16. Yeh, K. C., C. H. Liu, S. J. Franke, Manifestations of multiple scattering characteristics in transionospheric radio signals, Multiple Scattering of Waves in Random Media and Random Rough Surfaces, V. V. Varadan, V. K. Varadan, 291-310, Pa. State Univ., University Park, 1986.
17. Zebker, H. T., Decorrelation in interferometric radar echoes, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 30, 950-959, 1992.