Phase statistics of interferograms with applications to synthetic aperture radar

Applied Optics

Volumn 33, Issue 20, 1994, Pages 4361-4368

  Just, Dieter ^a   Bamler, Richard ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aberrations; Decorrelation; Interferometry; Phase statistics; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SCATTERING; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0028476356     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.33.004361     Document Type: Article

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