Verification of polarimetric calibration method including faraday rotation compensation using PALSAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3960-3968

  Takeshiro, Akihito ^a   Furuya, Tomohiro ^b   Fukuchi, Hajime ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kochi Prefectural Government   (Japan)

Author keywords

Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS); Antenna distortion matrix; Faraday rotation (FR); Phased Array L band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR); Polarimetric calibration

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITE (ALOS); ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; DISTORTION MATRICES; FARADAY ROTATIONS; L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; PHASED ARRAYS; POLARIMETRIC CALIBRATION;

ANTENNA REFLECTORS; CALIBRATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; REFLECTION; ROTATION; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SPACE RESEARCH; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

ALOS; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; POLARIZATION; RADIO WAVE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 70549084932     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2034465     Document Type: Article

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