Terrain height measurement accuracy of interferometric synthetic aperture radars

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 219-228

  Mrstik, Vincent ^a   Vanblaricum Jr , Glenn ^a   Cardillo, Gerard ^a   Fennell, Mark ^a  

^a TOYON RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; TERRAIN HEIGHT MEASUREMENT; TERRAIN SLOPES;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0029734609     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.481906     Document Type: Article

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