RF interference analysis in aperture synthesis interferometric radiometers: application to L-band MIRAS instrument

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 2 II, 2000, Pages 942-950

  Camps, Adriano J ^a,b   Corbella, Ignasi ^a,b   Torres, Francesc ^a   Barâ, Javier ^a,b   Capdevila, Joan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SCANNING ANTENNAS; SOILS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; THERMAL NOISE;

APERTURE SYNTHESIS INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETERS; RF INTERFERENCE ANALYSIS;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0033872944     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.841976     Document Type: Article

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