Ionospheric effects on SAR imaging: A numerical study

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 5 PART 1, 2003, Pages 939-947

  Liu, Jun ^b   Kuga, Yasuo ^a,b   Ishimaru, Akira ^a,b   Pi, Xiaoqing ^c   Freeman, Anthony ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ionospheric electromagnetic propagation; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

IMAGE DEGRADATION; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPAGATION; UNDERGROUND FACILITIES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 1942444996     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.811813     Document Type: Article

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