Impacts of ionospheric scintillation on the BIOMASS P-band satellite SAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1856-1868

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ionosphere; radio propagation; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORESTRY; GEOMAGNETISM; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RADIO WAVES; SCINTILLATION; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

IMPULSE RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; INTERFEROMETRIC IMAGES; IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES; IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; REPEAT-PASS INTERFEROMETRY; SPACEBORNE RADAR; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AZIMUTH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FOREST; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERFEROMETRY; IONOSPHERE; SATELLITE; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SUNSPOT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREE; TREELINE;

BIOMASS; ENERGY PRODUCTION; FORESTRY; RADAR; SIMULATION; SUN LIGHT;

EID: 84891561254     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2255880     Document Type: Article

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