Synthetic aperture radiometer systems

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2228-2236

  Le Vine, David M ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Interferometry; Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radiometry

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; RADIO ASTRONOMY; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETRY;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 0033281426     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.808964     Document Type: Article

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