The DLR SAR calibration center

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, APSAR 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 169-173

  Reimann, Jens ^a   Schwerdt, Marco ^a   Schmidt, Kersten ^a   Ramon, Nuria Tous ^a   Castellanos, Gabriel Alfonzo ^a   Döring, Björn ^a   Rudolf, Daniel ^a   Raab, Sebastian ^a   Antony, John Mohan Walter ^a   Zink, Manfred ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Calibration; Satellites; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CALIBRATION; RADAR; RADAR ASTRONOMY; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SATELLITES; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACE-BASED RADAR;

ACCURACY; ANTENNA MEASUREMENT; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; POLARIMETRIC INFORMATIONS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; REFERENCE TARGET; SAR CALIBRATIONS; SPACE-BORNE SAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84957714864     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSAR.2015.7306181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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