First bistatic spaceborne SAR experiments with TanDEM-X

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-37

  Rodriguez Cassola, Marc ^a   Prats, Pau ^a   Schulze, Daniel ^a   Tous Ramon, Nuria ^a   Steinbrecher, Ulrich ^a   Marotti, Luca ^a   Nannini, Matteo ^a   Younis, Marwan ^a   López Dekker, Paco ^a   Zink, Manfred ^a   Reigber, Andreas ^a   Krieger, Gerhard ^a   Moreira, Alberto ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bistatic radar; bistatic SAR processing; spaceborne SAR missions; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); time and phase synchronization

Indexed keywords

BISTATIC; BISTATIC RADARS; BISTATIC SAR; CALIBRATION INFORMATION; COMMISSIONING PHASE; DIGITAL ELEVATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EARTH SURFACE; GROUND SEGMENTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERFEROGRAMS; INTERFEROMETRIC MISSION; MONOSTATIC; SPACEBORNE SAR; TANDEM-X; TERRASAR-X; TIME AND PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; X-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

EXPERIMENTS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84655167571     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2158984     Document Type: Article

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