Signal level comparison between terraSAR-X and COSMO-SkyMed SAR sensors

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 448-452

  Baghdadi, Nicolas ^a   El Hajj, Mohammad ^a   Dubois Fernandez, Pascale ^b   Zribi, Mehrez ^c   Belaud, Gilles ^d   Cheviron, Bruno ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b ONERA   (France)

^c CESBIO   (France)

^d UMR G EAU   (France)

Author keywords

COSMO SkyMed (CSK); radiometric quality; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TerraSAR X (TSX); X band

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIOPHYSICS; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; SATELLITES; SPACE-BASED RADAR; VEGETATION;

BACKSCATTER SIGNALS; BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETER RETRIEVALS; BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; COSMO SKYMED; INCIDENCE ANGLES; RADIOMETRIC QUALITY; TERRASAR-X; X BANDS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84908075230     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2342733     Document Type: Article

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