Digital beamforming analysis and performance for a digital L-band pseudo-correlation radiometer

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bosch Lluis, X ^a   Ramos Perez, I ^a   Camps, A ^a   Rodriguez Alvarez, N ^a   Marchan Hernandez, J F ^a   Valencia, E ^a   Nieto, J M ^a   Guerrero, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Digital beam former; FPGA; L band; Pseudo correlation; Radiometer

Indexed keywords

BEAM FORMERS; CORRELATION RADIOMETERS; DIGITAL BEAM FORMING; DIGITAL BEAMFORMERS; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; INFRA-RED RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; OCEAN MONITORING; SEA STATE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TIME MULTIPLEXING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BEAMFORMING; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); GEOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OCEAN CURRENTS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 77950937316     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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