KaRIn on SWOT: Characteristics of near-nadir Ka-band interferometric SAR imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2172-2185

  Fjørtoft, Roger ^a   Gaudin, Jean Marc ^a   Pourthié, Nadine ^a   Lalaurie, Jean Claude ^a   Mallet, Alain ^a   Nouvel, Jean Francois ^b   Martinot Lagarde, Joseph ^b   Oriot, Helene ^b   Borderies, Pierre ^b   Ruiz, Christian ^c   Daniel, Sandrine ^c  

^a CNES   (France)

^b Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales   (France)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Altimetry; hydrology; interferometry; millimeter wave radar; oceanography; synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; HYDROLOGY; INTERFEROMETRY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALTIMETRY; BACKSCATTERING MEASUREMENT; BISTATIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE; INTERFEROMETRIC SAR; MILLIMETER WAVE RADAR; OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY; SHORT WAVELENGTHS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTER; GEOMETRY; INSTRUMENTATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETER; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 84892564882     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2258402     Document Type: Article

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