Effect of Faraday rotation on L-band interferometric and polarimetric synthetic-aperture radar data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 1 II, 2000, Pages 383-390

  Rignot, Eric J M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FARADAY EFFECT; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTERFEROMETRY; IONOSPHERE; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

FARADAY ROTATION ANGLES; L-BAND INTERFEROMETRY;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033896244     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.823934     Document Type: Article

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