MIRAS end-to-end calibration: Application to SMOS LI processor

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1126-1133

  Corbella, Ignasi ^a   Torres, Francesc ^a   Camps, Adriano ^a   Colliander, Andreas ^a,b   Martín Neira, Manuel ^c   Ribó, Serni ^d   Rautiainen, Kimmo ^b   Duffo, Nuria ^a   Vall Llossera, Mercè ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

^d INSTITUT D ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA IEEC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Calibration; Data processing; Image reconstruction; Microwave radiometry; Synthetic aperture imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOILS;

MICROWAVE IMAGING RADIOMETER BY APERTURE SYNTHESIS (MIRAS); MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS); SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 18444365873     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.840458     Document Type: Conference Paper

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