An investigation of bistatic calibration techniques

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2185-2190

  Bradley, Christopher J ^a,b,e,f,g   Collins, Peter J ^a,b   Fortuny Guasch, Joaquim ^a,c   Hastriter, Michael Larkin ^a,b   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 Tau Beta Pi ^*  (United States)

^g Air Force Institute of Technology Joint Research Centre of the European Commission   (United States)

Author keywords

Bistatic; Calibration; Measurement; Radar

Indexed keywords

BISTATIC;

ERROR ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; POLARIMETERS; RADAR;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 27744528836     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.855130     Document Type: Article

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