The visibility function in interferometric aperture synthesis radiometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1677-1682

  Corbella, Ignasi ^a   Duffo, Núria ^a   Vall Llossera, Mercè ^a   Camps, Adriano ^a   Torres, Francesc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Interferometric aperture synthesis; Microwave radiometry

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLINGS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLARIZATION; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMODYNAMICS; VISIBILITY;

INTERFEROMETRIC APERTURE SYNTHESIS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; RADIOASTRONOMY; VISIBILITY FUNCTION;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 3042655890     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.830641     Document Type: Review

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