Estimation of atmospheric path delays in TerraSAR-X data using models vs. measurements

Sensors

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 8479-8491

  Jehle, Michael ^a   Perler, Donat ^b   Small, David ^a   Schubert, Adrian ^a   Meier, Erich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Calibration; Geolocation accuracy; Ionosphere; Path delay; SAR; Synthetic aperture radar; TerraSAR X; Troposphere

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PATH DELAY; GEOLOCATIONS; GEOMETRIC CONDITIONS; MULTIPLE MEASUREMENTS; PATH DELAY; SAR; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; TERRASAR-X;

CALIBRATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; IONOSPHERE; SATELLITES; TRACKING (POSITION); TROPOSPHERE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 58149183866     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s8128479     Document Type: Article

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