ASAR Wide-Swath Mode: System and Processing Optimization
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We discuss the algorithm and the implementation of a procedure to optimize both system and processing parameters for ASAR-WSM. The impact of the optimized setting is shown by comparing the quality measured on the early mission acquistions (non-optimized), with the later one, achieved after tuning both instruments and processing parameters.
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