Terrestrial quadstatic interferometric radar observations of mars

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2670-2684

  Larsen, Kristopher W ^a   Jurgens, Raymond F ^b   Haldemann, Albert F C ^b   Slade, Martin A ^c   Rumsey, Howard C ^b  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Planets; Radar data processing; Radio interferometry; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; HIGH-RESOLUTION MAPPING; IN-SITU; INTERFEROMETRIC RADARS; LANDING SITE; MARS EXPLORATION ROVER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHODS; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; RADAR DATA PROCESSING; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; RADAR SIGNALS; RADIO INTERFEROMETRY; RECORDING SYSTEMS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ROUGHNESS;

DATA PROCESSING; INTERFEROMETRY; LANDING; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PLANETS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

CRATER; DATA PROCESSING; DOPPLER RADAR; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETER; MARS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PLANETARY SURFACE; RADAR IMAGERY;

EID: 77952585078     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2040084     Document Type: Article

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