Sentinel-1A product geolocation accuracy: Commissioning phase results

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 9431-9449

  Schubert, Adrian ^a   Small, David ^a   Miranda, Nuno ^b   Geudtner, Dirk ^c   Meier, Erich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Geolocation calibration validation; Sentinel 1A; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ORBITS; RADAR; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRACKING (POSITION);

ABSOLUTE LOCATION ERRORS; CALIBRATION/VALIDATION; COMMISSIONING PHASE; EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITES; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; IMAGING INSTRUMENTS; MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN; SENTINEL-1;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

EID: 84937855061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70709431     Document Type: Article

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