Minimized standing waves in microwave radiometer balancing calibration

Radio Science

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 116-123

  Deuber, Beat ^a   Kämpfer, Niklaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Balancing calibration; Baseline artifacts; Microwave remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; MIRRORS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIO EQUIPMENT; RADIOMETERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BALANCING CALIBRATION; BASELINE ARTIFACTS;

STANDING WAVE METERS;

EID: 1942442484     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003rs002943     Document Type: Article

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