Tandem-L: A Highly Innovative Bistatic SAR Mission for Global Observation of Dynamic Processes on the Earth's Surface

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 8-23

  Moreira, Alberto ^a   Krieger, Gerhard ^a   Hajnsek, Irena ^a   Papathanassiou, Konstantinos ^a   Younis, Marwan ^a   Lopez Dekker, Paco ^a   Huber, Sigurd ^a   Villano, Michelangelo ^a   Pardini, Matteo ^a   Eineder, Michael ^a   De Zan, Francesco ^a   Parizzi, Alessandro ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; RADAR IMAGING; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BISTATIC SAR; DYNAMIC PROCESS; EARTH'S SURFACE; GEOSPHERES; GLOBAL OBSERVATION; L-BAND SAR; NOVEL IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PHASE A; PRESSUNG; SATELLITE MISSION;

HYDROSPHERE;

BIOSPHERE; CRYOSPHERE; DATA QUALITY; DESIGN METHOD; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HYDROSPHERE; INNOVATION; SATELLITE MISSION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84938776698     PISSN: 24732397     EISSN: 21686831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MGRS.2015.2437353     Document Type: Article

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