TerraSAR-X SAR processing and products

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 727-740

  Breit, Helko ^a   Fritz, Thomas ^a   Balss, Ulrich ^b   Lachaise, Marie ^a   Niedermeier, Andreas ^a   Vonavka, Martin ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Spotlight (SL); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TerraSAR multimode SAR processor (TMSP); TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS; COMMISSIONING PHASE; DATA PRODUCTS; HIGH QUALITY; IMAGING CAPABILITIES; MULTIMODES; OPERATIONAL PHASE; PRODUCT QUALITY; SAR DATA PROCESSING; SAR PROCESSING; SAR PROCESSORS; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; TERRASAR-X;

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

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

DATA PROCESSING; DATA QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; PRECISION; SATELLITE MISSION; SIR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 76249099020     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2035497     Document Type: Article

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