Assessment of the ASAR sensor radiometric quality in comparison to ERS-2 and RADARSAT-1 SAR data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 29, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 4653-4665

  Baghdadi, N ^a   Zribi, M ^b   Delorme, A ^a  

^a BRGM   (France)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; RADIOMETRY;

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; CALIBRATION CONSTANTS; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; RADARSAT-1 SAR; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; RADIOMETRIC QUALITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CALIBRATION; ENVISAT-1; ERS-2; ESTIMATION METHOD; RADARSAT; RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 48249090824     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160801894865     Document Type: Article

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