Development of the synthetic aperture microwave radiometer, ESTAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 199-202

  Le Vine, D M ^a   Swift, C T ^b   Haken, M ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^c RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0035111742     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.898685     Document Type: Article

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