Polarimetric PALSAR calibration

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3951-3959

  Touzi, Ridha ^a   Shimada, Masanobu ^b  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antenna gain; Calibration; Polarimetric radar; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; AMAZONIAN FORESTS; ANTENNA GAINS; ANTENNA PARAMETERS; CALIBRATION SITE; CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY; CORNER REFLECTOR; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; DATA SETS; DISTORTION MATRICES; FARADAY ROTATION ANGLE; FARADAY ROTATIONS; L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; PHASED ARRAYS; POLARIMETRIC DATA; POLARIMETRIC RADARS; RAIN FORESTS;

CALIBRATION; CROSSTALK; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; REFLECTION; ROTATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

RADAR ANTENNAS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; POLARIZATION; RAINFOREST; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AMAZONIA; CANADA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTH AMERICA; SWEDEN;

EID: 70450248473     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2032176     Document Type: Article

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