Final TerraSAR-X calibration results based on novel efficient methods

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 677-689

  Schwerdt, Marco ^a   Bräutigam, Benjamin ^a   Bachmann, Markus ^a   Döring, Bjön ^a   Schrank, Dirk ^a   Hueso Gonzalez, Jaime ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absolute radiometric accuracy; Active phased array antenna; Antenna model; Calibration; Pixel localization accuracy; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA MODEL; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS; RADIOMETRIC ACCURACY; TERRASAR-X;

CALIBRATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ORBITS; PIXELS; POWER CONVERTERS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANTENNA; CALIBRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; PIXEL; SATELLITE MISSION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 76349103952     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2035308     Document Type: Article

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