Multistatic SAR satellite formations: Potentials and challenges

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 2680-2684

  Krieger, Gerhard ^a   Moreira, Alberto ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SYNCHRONIZATION; VEGETATION;

PHASE AND TIME SYNCHRONISATION; RADIOMETRIC RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT; SINGLE-PASS CROSSTRACK INTERFEROMETRY; SPARSE SATELLITE ARRAYS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 33745684517     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2005.1525618     Document Type: Conference Paper

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