TOPS imaging with TerraSAR-X: Mode design and performance analysis

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 759-769

  Meta, Adriano ^a   Mittermayer, Josef ^b   Prats, Pau ^b   Scheiber, Rolf ^b   Steinbrecher, Ulrich ^b  

^a University of Hull   (Netherlands)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

ScanSAR; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Terrain observation by progressive scan (TOPS); Wide swath SAR

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PATTERN; AZIMUTH DEPENDENCE; DISTRIBUTED TARGET; GRATING LOBES; IMAGING MODES; NONIDEAL; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; SCANSAR; STEERING LAW; SYSTEM DESIGN; TERRASAR-X;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SATELLITES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

ANTENNA; INTERFEROMETRY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRAIN;

EID: 76249119733     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2026743     Document Type: Article

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