Improvement of polarimetric SAR calibration based on the Quegan algorithm

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 184-187

  Kimura, Hiroshi ^a   Mizuno, Toshiyuki ^a   Papathanassiou, Konstantinos P ^b   Hajnsek, Irena ^b  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

ALOS PALSAR; Calibration; Pi SAR; Quegan algorithm; Radar Polarimetry; Van Zyl algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS;

ALOS/PALSAR; PI-SAR; QUEGAN ALGORITHM; VAN ZYL ALGORITHM;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 15944388284     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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