End-to-end simulator of two-dimensional interferometric radiometry

Radio Science

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Corbella, Ignasi ^a   Camps, Adriano ^a   Zapata, Miguel ^a   Marcos, Fernando ^b   Martínez, Francisco ^c   Torres, Francesc ^a   Vall llossera, Mercè ^a   Duffo, Nuria ^a   Bará, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

^c GMV   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brightness temperature imaging; Interferometric aperture synthesis; Microwave radiometry; Simulation tools; SMOS mission

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROWAVES; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATORS; TOMOGRAPHY;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE IMAGING; INTERFEROMETRIC APERTURE SYNTHESIS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; RADIO SCIENCE; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL INTERFEROMETRIC RADIOMETRY;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0041883469     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002rs002665     Document Type: Article

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