The impact of antenna pattern frequency dependence in aperture synthesis microwave radiometers

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2218-2224

  Camps, A ^a,b   Corbella, I ^a,b   Torres, F ^a,b   Duffo, N ^a,b   Vall llosera, M ^a,b   Martin Neira, M ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antenna pattern; Interferometer; Microwave radiometer; Radiometry

Indexed keywords

APERTURE SYNTHESIS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER;

BANDWIDTH; INTERFEROMETRY; RADIOMETERS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 27744486389     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.854309     Document Type: Article

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