The fully polarimetric imaging radiometer SPIRA at 91 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2323-2336

  Durić, Aleksandar ^a   Magun, Andreas ^c   Murk, Axel ^b   Mätzlermatzler, Christian ^b   Kämpferkampfer, Niklaus ^b  

^a Siemens Schweiz AG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Four Stokes parameters; Imaging; Millimeter wave; Passive remote sensing; Polarimeter

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; CALIBRATION; HETERODYNING; IMAGE SENSORS; PARABOLIC ANTENNAS; POLARIZATION; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SCANNING;

APPLICATIONS.; CORRELATOR; EARTH'S SURFACE; FOUR STOKES PARAMETERS; HETERODYNE RECEIVERS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; IMAGING; MAN-MADE OBJECTS; MILLIMETER-WAVE; PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING; POLARIMET RIC MEASUREMENTS; POLARIMETER; POLARIMETRIC CALIBRATION; POLARIMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS; POLARIMETRIC IMAGING; POLARIZATION COMPONENTS; POLARIZATION STATE; POLARIZED RADIATIONS; STOKES PARAMETERS; TWO-CHANNEL;

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 48849090594     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.917212     Document Type: Article

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