First 2-D interferometric radiometer imaging of the earth from an aircraft

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 241-245

  Kainulainen, Juha ^b   Rautiainen, Kimmo ^b   Tauriainen, Simo ^b   Auer, Tuomo ^b   Kettunen, Jani ^b   Hallikainen, Martti ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Interferometry; Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture imaging

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE APERTURE SYNTHESIS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING;

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERFEROMETRY; RADIOMETERS; STABILITY;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 34247363328     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2006.890553     Document Type: Article

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