Recent developments in radar altimetry over land and applications to future altimetric missions

Authors :: Guido Vingione
Paolo Ferrazzoli
Marco Meloni
Tommaso Parrinello
Source :: IGARSS
Publication Year :: 2012
Publisher :: IEEE, 2012.
Abstract: Satellite radar altimetry, which was initially designed for accurate measurements of sea surface height, has been demonstrated to be suitable for land surfaces as well.

Subjects :: Synthetic aperture radar
Radar engineering details
Backscatter
Early-warning radar
Meteorology
Interferometric synthetic aperture radar
Sea-surface height
Altimeter
Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Geology
Space-based radar
Physics::Geophysics
Remote sensing

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