PALSAR radiometric and geometric calibration

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3915-3932

  Shimada, Masanobu ^a   Isoguchi, Osamu ^a   Tadono, Takeo ^a   Isono, Kazuo ^b  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY CENTER OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS); Calibration and validation (CALVAL); Phased Array L Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR); POLarimetric CALibration (POLCAL); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

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

CALIBRATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; STANDARDS; STATISTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALOS; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; MODEL VALIDATION; RADIOMETER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 70549090115     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2023909     Document Type: Article

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