Estimation and correction of scintillation effects on spaceborne P-band SAR images

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 5101-5104

  Kim, Jun Su ^a   Papathanassiou, Konstantinos P ^a   Quegan, Shaun ^b   Rogers, Neil ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

focusing; ionosphere; polarimetry

Indexed keywords

CORRECTION METHOD; DEFOCUSING; HIGH-LATITUDE REGIONS; IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION; SAR IMAGES; SPACE-BORNE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; FOCUSING; GEOLOGY; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SCINTILLATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84873192812     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352463     Document Type: Conference Paper

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