Generation of digital elevation models by using SIR-C/X-SAR multifrequency two-pass interferometry: The etna case study

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1097-1114

  Lanari, Riccardo ^a,b,c,d   Fornaro, Gianfranco ^a,b,c   Riccio, Daniele ^a,b,c,f   Migliaccio, Maurizio ^a,e,f   Papathanassiou, Konstantinos P ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Moreira, Joäo R ^d,e,f   Schwäbisch, Marcus ^d,e,f   Dutra, Luciano ^a,b,e,f   Puglisi, Giuseppe ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Franceschetti, Giorgio ^d,e,f   Coltelli, Mauro ^a,d,e,f  

^a Ist Ric l'Elettromagnetismo C   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c Istituto Universitario Navale   (Italy)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^f Istituto Internazionale di Vulcanologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; IMAGE PROCESSING; KALMAN FILTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; RADAR IMAGING; SENSORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS; INTERFEROMETRIC MULTIFREQUENCY POTENTIALITY;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0030241919     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.536526     Document Type: Article

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