TerraSAR-X system performance characterization and verification

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 660-676

  Mittermayer, Josef ^a   Younis, Marwan ^a   Metzig, Robert ^a   Wollstadt, Steffen ^a   Márquez Martínez, José ^b   Meta, Adriano ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b Starlab Barcelona SL   (Spain)

^c University of Hull   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Commissioning phase; SAR system performance; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TerraSAR X (TS X)

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION GEOMETRY; ACQUISITION PARAMETERS; BLOCK ADAPTIVE QUANTIZATIONS; COMMISSIONING PHASE; IMPULSE-RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE; KEY PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZATION; RADIOMETRIC RESOLUTION; SAR SYSTEM; SAR SYSTEM PERFORMANCE; SCANSAR; TERRASAR-X;

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

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 76249093396     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2026742     Document Type: Article

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