Scalloping correction in TOPS imaging mode SAR data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 614-618

  Wollstadt, Steffen ^a   Prats, Pau ^a   Bachmann, Markus ^a   Mittermayer, Josef ^a   Scheiber, Rolf ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electronic beam steering; phased array antenna; scalloping; Terrain Observation by Progressive Scan (TOPS); TerraSAR X (TSX); TOPS calibration

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC BEAM STEERING; PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS; SCALLOPING; TERRAIN OBSERVATION BY PROGRESSIVE SCAN (TOPS); TERRASAR-X;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; POWER CONVERTERS; RADAR SYSTEMS; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

RADAR ANTENNAS;

EID: 84861200603     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2176716     Document Type: Article

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