Calibration of end-to-end phase imbalance of polarimetric radiometers

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2635-2641

  Colliander, Andreas ^a   Kettunen, Jani ^a   Hallikainen, Martti T ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Digital correlation; Phase imbalance; Polarimetric radiometer; Stokes parameters

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL CORRELATION; LINEARLY POLARIZED FIELD; PHASE IMBALANCES; POLARIMETRIC RADIOMETER; POLARIZATION PLANES; POLARIZATION PURITY; POLARIZATION SEPARATION; STOKES PARAMETERS;

ANTENNAS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 34347253272     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.877759     Document Type: Article

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