The glacier and land ice surface topography interferometer: An airborne proof-of-concept demonstration of high-precision Ka-band single-pass elevation mapping

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 827-842

  Moller, Delwyn ^a   Hensley, Scott ^b   Sadowy, Gregory A ^b   Fisher, Charles D ^b   Michel, Thierry ^b   Zawadzki, Mark ^b   Rignot, Eric ^b,c  

^a 248 E Foothill Blvd   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ice; interferometry; radar

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION SITE; CORRELATION DATA; DATA EXAMPLES; ELEVATION MAPPING; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; GREENLAND; GULFSTREAM; HIGH-PRECISION; ICE COVER; IN-SITU; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR; JET PROPULSION LABORATORY; KA BAND; LIDAR DATA; MAPPING CAPABILITIES; NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SNOW COVERS; SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS; TRACK GEOMETRY; UNINHABITED AERIAL VEHICLE; URBAN AREAS; WAVEGUIDE ANTENNAS;

AUTOMOBILE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; CALIBRATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; MAPPING; NASA; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RATING; SNOW; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ICE;

CALIBRATION; DATA SET; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; GLACIER; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; ICE COVER; INTERFEROMETRY; LIDAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECISION; SNOW COVER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; TRACKING; URBAN AREA;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 79151478474     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2057254     Document Type: Article

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