The external calibration study for EarthCARE/CPR

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1895-1898

  Horie, Hiroaki ^a   Ohno, Yuichi ^a   Takahashi, Nobuhiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active radar calibrator; Cloud Profiling Radar; Normalized radar cross section of sea surface

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE ANTENNAS; SCANNING ANTENNAS; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SURFACE WATERS;

ACTIVE RADAR CALIBRATORS; CLOUD PROFILING RADAR; CLOUD PROFILING RADARS; DISTRIBUTED TARGET; EXTERNAL CALIBRATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY; SEA SURFACES;

RADAR CROSS SECTION;

EID: 78650874828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5650733     Document Type: Conference Paper

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