The calibration of the envisat radar altimeter receiver by a passive technique

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3297-3307

  Pierdicca, Nazzareno ^a,b   Greco, Bruno ^c   Bignami, Christian ^b   Ferrazzoli, Paolo ^d   Mattioli, Vinia ^e   Pulvirenti, Luca ^b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Backscattering coefficient; Calibration; Microwave emission models; Microwave radiometry; Radar Altimeter (RA)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; MICROWAVE EMISSION MODELS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; RADAR ALTIMETER (RA);

BACKSCATTERING; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RADAR IMAGING; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

RADIO ALTIMETERS;

EID: 33750804914     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.879110     Document Type: Article

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