TanDEM-X

Distributed Space Missions for Earth System Monitoring

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 387-435

  Krieger, G ^a   Zink, M ^a   Bachmann, M ^a   Brautigam B ^a   Breit, H ^a   Fiedler, H ^a   Fritz, T ^a   Hajnsek, I ^a   Gonzalez, J Hueso ^a   Kahle, R ^a   Konig R ^a   Schattler B ^a   Schulze, D ^a   Ulrich, D ^b   Wermuth, M ^a   Wessel, B ^a   Moreira, A ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA HANDLING; INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SURVEYING;

ALONG TRACK INTERFEROMETRY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FORMATION-FLYING SATELLITES; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INTERFEROMETRIC SAR; SAR INTERFEROMETERS; SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS; VERTICAL RESOLUTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84983179139     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4541-8_13     Document Type: Chapter

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