TerraSAR-X instrument operations rooted in the system engineering and calibration project

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 633-641

  Steinbrecher, Ulrich ^a   Schulze, Daniel ^a   Boer, Johannes ^a   Mittermayer, Josef ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TerraSAR X instrument operations; TerraSAR XSystem Engineering and Calibration (SEC) project

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENT OPERATION; TERRASAR-X; TERRASAR-XSYSTEM ENGINEERING AND CALIBRATION (SEC) PROJECT;

CALIBRATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INSTRUMENTS; RADAR; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

GROUND OPERATIONS;

CALIBRATION; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 76249085171     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2032177     Document Type: Article

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