Improvement and assessment of the absolute positioning accuracy of Chinese high-resolution SAR satellites

Remote Sensing

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2019, Pages

  Deng, Mingjun ^a   Zhang, Guo ^b   Cai, Chenglin ^a   Xu, Kai ^b   Zhao, Ruishan ^c   Guo, Fengchen ^b   Suo, Jing ^d  

^a XIANGTAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LIAONING TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Tianjin Institute of Surveying and Mapping   (China)

Author keywords

Absolute positioning accuracy; GaoFen 3; Geometric calibration; YaoGan 13

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADAR IMAGING; ROCK MECHANICS; SATELLITES; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ABSOLUTE POSITIONING; ATMOSPHERIC PROPAGATION; AUTOMATED PROCESSING; GAOFEN-3; GEOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; HIGH RESOLUTION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; YAOGAN-13;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 85068184565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs11121465     Document Type: Article

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