Calibration of linearly polarized polarimetric SAR data subject to Faraday rotation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1617-1624

  Freeman, Anthony ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Faraday rotation; Polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CALIBRATION; CROSSTALK; DATA PROCESSING; IONOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADIO COMMUNICATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CHANNEL AMPLITUDE; FARADAY ROTATION; PHASE IMBALANCE; SYMMETRIZATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 4344718500     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.830161     Document Type: Article

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