Noise-related radiometric correction in the TerraSAR-X multimode SAR processor

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 741-750

  Balss, Ulrich ^a   Breit, Helko ^b   Fritz, Thomas ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Noise; Radiometry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE SYSTEM NOISE; CORRECTION SCHEMES; MULTIMODES; NOISE; NOISE POWER; PATTERN CORRECTION; RESIDUAL NOISE; SAR FOCUSING; SAR PROCESSORS; SCANSAR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; TERRASAR-X; THEORETICAL RESULT;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITES; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

BACKSCATTER; CORRECTION; NOISE; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; RADIOMETRIC SURVEY; STOCHASTICITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 76349121051     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2035443     Document Type: Article

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