Multimode hybrid geometric calibration of spaceborne SAR considering atmospheric propagation delay

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Zhao, Ruishan ^a,b   Zhang, Guo ^b   Deng, Mingjun ^b   Yang, Fan ^a   Chen, Zhenwei ^b   Zheng, Yuzhi ^b  

^a LIAONING TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Atmospheric propagation delay; Geometric calibration; Ionospheric delay; Spaceborne SAR; Tropospheric delay

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; GEOMETRY; ROCK MECHANICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ATMOSPHERIC PROPAGATION; GEOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; IONOSPHERIC DELAYS; SPACE-BORNE SAR; TROPOSPHERIC DELAYS;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

EID: 85019925616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9050464     Document Type: Article

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