Analysis of spaceborne Tandem configurations for complementing COSMO with SAR interferometry

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 3304-3315

  Moccia, A ^a   Fasano, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Along track interferometry; Cross track interferometry; Mission analysis; Multiplatform interferometry; Spaceborne SAR interferometry

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSTALK; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR TRACKING; SPACE RENDEZVOUS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALONG TRACK INTERFEROMETRY; CROSS TRACK INTERFEROMETRY; MISSION ANALYSIS; MULTIPLATFORM INTERFEROMETRY; SPACEBORNE SAR INTERFEROMETRY;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 33751276009     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: 16870433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/ASP.2005.3304     Document Type: Article

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