Processing SAR data of rugged terrain by time-domain back-projection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5980, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Frey, Othmar ^a   Maier, Erich H ^a   Nüesch, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antenna gain pattern correction; ASAR; Back projection; Digital elevation model; Envisat; Geocoding; Radiometric correction; SAR processing; Topography

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADIOMETRY; SENSORS;

ANTENNA GAIN PATTERN CORRECTION; ASAR; BACK-PROJECTION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS; ENVISAT; GEOCODING; RADIOMETRIC CORRECTION; SAR PROCESSING; TOPOGRAPHY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 33644541392     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.627647     Document Type: Conference Paper

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