TerraSAR-X instrument calibration results and extension for TanDEM-X

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 702-715

  Bräutigam, Benjamin ^a   González, Jaime Hueso ^a   Schwerdt, Marco ^a   Bachmann, Markus ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active phased array antenna; Calibration; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Transmit receive modules (TRMs)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE PHASED ARRAY; ACTIVE PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA; ACTIVE PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS; ANTENNA PERFORMANCE; BISTATIC; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; ELECTRONIC BEAM STEERING; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH STANDARDS; IMAGE PRODUCTS; IMAGING QUALITY; INSTRUMENT CALIBRATIONS; INTERNAL CALIBRATION; OPERATING FLEXIBILITY; RADAR IMAGE; SPACEBORNE REMOTE SENSING; TANDEM-X; TERRASAR-X; TRANSMIT/RECEIVE MODULES;

CALIBRATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; POWER CONVERTERS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

ANTENNA; CALIBRATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; INSTRUMENTATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADAR IMAGERY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 76249130629     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2030673     Document Type: Article

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