Simulating the impacts of ionospheric scintillation on L band SAR image formation

Radio Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Carrano, Charles S ^a   Groves, Keith M ^a,b   Caton, Ronald G ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAK SCALE; DOMINANT WAVELENGTH; EQUATORIAL IONOSPHERE; EQUATORIAL PLASMA BUBBLE; FIELD-ALIGNED IRREGULARITIES; FRESNEL; IONOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES; IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION; L-BAND SAR; OBLIQUE ANGLES; PARABOLIC WAVE EQUATION; PHASE FLUCTUATION; PHASE SCREEN; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; RADAR BEAM; RADAR SIGNALS; SAR IMAGE FORMATION; SAR SIGNALS; SCALE SIZES; SMALL TARGETS; SPECTRAL INDICES; SPLIT-STEP TECHNIQUE; TERRESTRIAL FEATURES;

IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; SCINTILLATION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84861751844     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011RS004956     Document Type: Article

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