An investigation of bistatic calibration objects

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2177-2184

  Bradley, Christopher J ^a,b,e,f,g   Collins, Peter J ^a,b,e   Fortuny Guasch, Joaquim ^a,c   Hastriter, Michael Larkin ^a,b,e,f   Nesti, Giuseppe ^a,c   Terzuoli Jr , Andrew J ^a,b   Wilson, Kelce S ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^d Fulbright and Jaworski   (United States)

^e USAF   (United States)

^f Eta Kappa Nu Engineering Honor Societies ^*  (United States)

^g Tau Beta Pi   (United States)

Author keywords

Bistatic; Calibration; Radar cross section (RCS); Scattering

Indexed keywords

BISTATIC; RADAR CROSS SECTION (RCS);

ERROR ANALYSIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; POLARIMETERS; RADAR;

OPTICAL BISTABILITY;

EID: 27744476135     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.855138     Document Type: Article

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