The CoReH2O end to end simulator: Architecture and simulation results analysis

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4541-4544

  Scagliola, Michele ^a   Giudici, Davide ^a   Acarreta, Juan Ramon ^b   Del Pozo, Enrique ^b   Buck, Christopher ^c  

^a Aresys srl   (Italy)

^b DEIMOS SPACE S L U   (Spain)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

End to End mission performance simulator; SAR

Indexed keywords

EARTH EXPLORER; END TO END; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; INSTRUMENTAL ERROR; LEVEL-1; MISSION PERFORMANCE; PRODUCTS QUALITY; SAR; SAR SYSTEM; SNOW PACKS; SPECKLE NOISE;

GEOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 84873137988     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350460     Document Type: Conference Paper

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