The TerraSAR-X satellite

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 615-622

  Pitz, Wolfgang ^a   Miller, David ^a  

^a AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

Author keywords

SAR satellite; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS; BUS TECHNOLOGY; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; ENVISAT; GOVERNMENTAL INSTITUTION; INDUSTRIAL SECTOR; OPERATIONAL FLEXIBILITY; SAR IMAGING; SAR SATELLITE; SATELLITE SYSTEM DESIGN; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SPACE MISSIONS; TERRASAR-X;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; EARTH (PLANET); GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OBSERVATORIES; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SATELLITE ANTENNAS; SPACE FLIGHT; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; ANTENNA; ENVISAT-1; ERS-1; ERS-2; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 76249089078     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2037432     Document Type: Article

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