Noise-induced slope distortion in 2-D phase unwrapping by linear estimators with application to SAR interferometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 913-921

  Bamler, Richard ^a   Adam, Nico ^a   Davidson, Gordon W ^a   Just, Dieter ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

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EID: 0001036065     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.673682     Document Type: Article

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