Biomass End-to-End mission performance assessment

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1602-1605

  Lopez Dekker, Paco ^a   Garcia, Jose A ^a   De Zan, Francesco ^a   Borner, Thomas ^a   Younis, Marwan ^a   Papathanassiou, Kostas ^a   Guardabrazo, Tomas ^b   Bourlon, Valerie ^c   Ramongassie, Sophie ^c   Taveneau, Nicolas ^c   Ulander, Lars ^d   Murdin, Daniel ^d   Rogers, Neil ^e   Quegan, Shaun ^e   Franco, Raffaella ^f  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b Deimos Space ^*  (Spain)

^c THALES ALENIA SPACE   (France)

^d SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^f EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

Author keywords

BIOMASS; SAR; Simulator

Indexed keywords

AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH; END-TO-END PERFORMANCE; MISSION PERFORMANCE; SAR; TEMPORAL DECORRELATION;

ERRORS; GEOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SIMULATORS;

BIOMASS;

EID: 84873199082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350810     Document Type: Conference Paper

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