Assessment of atmospheric propagation effects in SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3507-3518

  Danklmayer, Andreas ^a   Doring, Bj Rn J ^a   Schwerdt, Marco ^a   Chandra, Madhu ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Propagation; Rain; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE CALIBRATION; ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERIC PROPAGATION; ATTENUATION; COMMISSIONING PHASE; EXTERNAL CALIBRATION; NEW YORK; OVERALL QUALITY; PROCESSED IMAGES; PROPAGATION; PROPAGATION EFFECT; RADAR DATA; RADAR IMAGE; SAR IMAGES; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; TERRASAR-X; TEST SITE;

CALIBRATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; ONTOLOGY; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RAIN; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ARTIFACT; CALIBRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RADAR IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 70350621629     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2022271     Document Type: Article

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