Formation flying concept for close remote sensing satellites

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 120, Issue I, 2005, Pages 831-848

  D'Amico, Simone ^a   Montenbruck, Oliver ^a   Arbinger, Christian ^a   Fiedler, Hauke ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SPACECRAFT; SPECIAL EFFECTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

IMAGE RESOLUTIONS; REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES; SAR INTERFEROMETERS;

SATELLITES;

EID: 26944478598     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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