A feasibility assessment for low-cost insar formation-flying microsatellites

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2847-2858

  Peterson, Erica H ^a   Fotopoulos, Georgia ^b   Zee, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Interferometry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MAP; FEASIBILITY ASSESSMENT; FORMATION FLIGHT; FORMATION FLYING; HIGHEST RESOLUTIONS; INTERFEROMETRIC BASELINES; INTERFEROMETRIC CARTWHEEL; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; MICRO SATELLITE; MICROSATELLITES; MULTI-STATIC; NANO-SATELLITES; OPERATING AREA; SATELLITE SAR; SMALL SATELLITE CONSTELLATION; TRANSMIT POWER; X-BAND TRANSMITTERS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETERS; PENDULUMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRANSMITTERS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

COSMOLOGY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERFEROMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 67949091110     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2017521     Document Type: Article

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