Fore and aft channel reconstruction in the TerraSAR-X dual receive antenna mode

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 795-806

  Gabele, Martina ^a   Brautigam, Benjamin ^a   Schulze, Daniel ^a   Steinbrecher, Ulrich ^a   Tous Ramon, Nuria ^a   Younis, Marwan ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Along track interferometry (ATI); Calibration; Dual receive antenna (DRA) mode; Ground moving target indication (GMTI); Space based radar; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

ALONG TRACK INTERFEROMETRY; ALONG-TRACK INTERFEROMETRY (ATI); GROUND MOVING TARGET INDICATION; RECEIVE ANTENNA; SPACE-BASED RADAR; TERRASAR-X;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETERS; JAMMING; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; REPAIR; SATELLITE ANTENNAS; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGETS;

RADAR ANTENNAS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; HARDWARE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERFEROMETRY; RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 76249125696     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2032920     Document Type: Article

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