Modeling and analysis of polarimetric synthetic aperture interferometric radiometers using noise waves

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3560-3570

  Colliander, Andreas ^b   Narhi, Tapani ^a   De Maagt, Peter ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Interferometric synthethic aperture radiometers; Noise waves

Indexed keywords

END-TO-END SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETHIC APERTURE RADIOMETERS; MODELING AND ANALYSIS; NOISE WAVES; NON-IDEALITIES; PHASE PROPERTIES; S -PARAMETERS; WAVE CONCEPT;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

FEASIBILITY STUDY; NOISE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POLARIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVE ACTION;

EID: 77956063181     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2047261     Document Type: Article

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