The radiometric measurement quantity for SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 5307-5314

  Döring, Björn J ^a   Schwerdt, Marco ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calibration; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; COMPLEX TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; DISTRIBUTED TARGET; MEASUREMENT PROCEDURES; PHYSICAL QUANTITIES; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS;

CALIBRATION; PIXELS; RADAR ASTRONOMY; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTER; CALIBRATION; PIXEL; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; REFLECTIVITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRAIN;

EID: 84889635010     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2234128     Document Type: Article

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