The TanDEM-X mission: Overview and status

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3944-3947

  Zink, Manfred ^a   Krieger, Gerhard ^a   Fiedler, Hauke ^a   Moreira, Alberto ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bistatic SAR formation; HRTI 3 DEM; New SAR techniques; Single pass interferometry; TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

BISTATIC SAR FORMATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; HRTI-3 DEM; NEW SAR TECHNIQUES; SINGLE-PASS INTERFEROMETRY; TERRASAR-X;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 80054002768     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423711     Document Type: Conference Paper

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