Robust array configuration for a microwave interferometric radiometer: Application to the GeoSTAR project

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 97-101

  Torres, F ^a   Tanner, A B ^b   Brown, S T ^b   Lambrigsten, B H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interferometry; Radiometry; Redundancy remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ATMOSPHERIC ACOUSTICS; INTERFEROMETRY; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MICROWAVES; ORBITS; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

GEOSTATIONARY ORBITS; RADIOMETRIC ERRORS; RADIOMETRIC RESOLUTION; SPATIAL HARMONIC;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 33846618281     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2006.886427     Document Type: Article

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