TerraSAR-X commissioning phase execution summary

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 649-659

  Mittermayer, Josef ^a   Schattler, Birgit ^a   Younis, Marwan ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Commissioning phase (CP); TerraSAR X (TSX)

Indexed keywords

COMMAND GENERATION; COMMISSIONING PHASE; STATISTICAL REPORT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; TERRASAR-X;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SATELLITES;

SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 76249129296     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2026744     Document Type: Article

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