Quantifying and correcting ionospheric effects on P-band sar images

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Quegan, Shaun ^a   Green, Jim ^a   Zandona Schneider, Rafael ^b   Scheiber, Rolf ^b   Papathanassiou, Kostas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autofocus; Faraday rotation; SAR image quality; Scintillation

Indexed keywords

AUTOFOCUS; CORRECTION PROCEDURE; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; FARADAY ROTATION; FARADAY ROTATIONS; IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS; MIDLATITUDES; PHASE GRADIENT ALGORITHMS; POLARIMETRIC DATA; SAR IMAGE QUALITY; SAR IMAGERY; SAR IMAGES;

IMAGE QUALITY; REMOTE SENSING; ROTATION; SCINTILLATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 66549125702     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779048     Document Type: Conference Paper

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