Faraday rotation correction in the polarimetric mode of MIRAS

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1405-1410

  Ribó, Serni ^a   Martín Neira, Manuel ^b  

^a INSTITUT D ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA IEEC   (Spain)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Faraday rotation; L band; Microwave Imaging Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS); Polarimetric radiometry; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS); Synthetic aperture radiometry

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; DECISION MAKING; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MOISTURE; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

FARADAY ROTATION; L-BAND; MICROWAVE IMAGING RADIOMETER WITH APERTURE SYNTHESIS (MIRAS); SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS); SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADIOMETRY;

FARADAY EFFECT;

EID: 3843152720     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.828189     Document Type: Article

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