Cassini RADAR sequence planning and instrument performance

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1777-1795

  West, Richard D ^a   Anderson, Yanhua ^a   Boehmer, Rudy ^a   Borgarelli, Leonardo ^b   Callahan, Philip ^a   Elachi, Charles ^a   Gim, Yonggyu ^a   Hamilton, Gary ^a   Hensley, Scott ^a   Janssen, Michael A ^a   Johnson, William T K ^a   Kelleher, Kathleen ^a   Lorenz, Ralph ^c   Ostro, Steve ^a   Roth, Ladislav ^a   Shaffer, Scott ^a   Stiles, Bryan ^a   Wall, Steve ^a   Wye, Lauren C ^d   Zebker, Howard A ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b THALES ALENIA SPACE ITALIA   (Italy)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ADAR; Cassini; Radiometer; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE CALIBRATION; ACTIVE MODE; ADAR; CASSINI; DATA SYSTEMS; GOOD STABILITY; HIGH ALTITUDE; HIGH BANDWIDTH; ICY SATELLITES; INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE; LONG RANGE; MULTIMODE; RADIOMETER MODES; RANGE RESOLUTION; RELATIVE UNCERTAINTY; SATURN RINGS; SATURN'S ATMOSPHERE; SCATTEROMETER; SEQUENCE PLANNING; SURFACE COMPOSITIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING;

BANDWIDTH; CALIBRATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SURFACE STRUCTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SATELLITES;

INSTRUMENTATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLANNING METHOD; RADAR; SATURN; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 67349264070     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2007217     Document Type: Conference Paper

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