The TerraSAR-X ground segment

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 623-632

  Buckreuss, Stefan ^a   Schättler, Birgit ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ground segment; Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SAR; COMMERCIAL USERS; COMMISSIONING PHASE; DATA PRODUCTS; GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTERS; GROUND SEGMENT; GROUND SEGMENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; IMAGING MODES; MAJOR ELEMENTS; OPERATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS; POLARIZATION MODES; REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES; SAR DATA; SCANSAR; STRIPMAP; TERRASAR-X; VALIDATION APPROACH; VERIFICATION PROGRAMS;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

CALIBRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE MISSION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 76249089735     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2031432     Document Type: Article

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