The impact of the ionosphere on interferometric SAR processing

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 391-394

  Meyer, Franz J ^a   Nicoll, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Ionospheric effects; Ionospheric phase screen; Polarimetric SAR calibration; SAR interferometry

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; INTERFEROMETRY; IONOSPHERE; REMOTE SENSING;

CARRIER FREQUENCY; INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE ERROR; INTERFEROMETRIC SAR PROCESSING; IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS; PHASE SCREEN; POLARIMETRIC SAR; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SIGNAL PROPERTIES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 66549111407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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